The current environmental crisis has unveiled the fragile balance that sustained the perception of an undisrupted nature, letting its representation to acquire a new and vital relevance. Since its early artistic manifestations, realistic, or fantastical allusions of nature have brought together knowledges, traditions, and beliefs. Today, in addition, there are concerns regarding the consequences deriving from the methods whereby commodities are extracted along with consumption and pressure exerted by humans against the ecosystems.
The observation of nature reveals patterns that lead to the establishment of unusual connections between cultural and scientific disciplines. Thus, transversal thinking systems that may offer solutions to the current crisis arise. Adding these systems to iconographic models analyzed by anthropology and cultural studies results in a combined repertoire of ancestral yet contemporary signs and symbols, capable of encoming and shaping knowledges in flux.
