Wanderlust I

Wanderlust

The term derived from a German words wandern (to hike) and Lust (desire). Placing the two words together is commonly described as a ʺfarsicknessʺ (Fernweh), coined as an antonym to ʺhomesicknessʺ (Heimweh).

The connotations of pointless wandering and romanticism, or neo-romanticism are here justified.

Also with ironic delight on the beauty of nature transformed by humans. The lasting influence of human activities has transformed the global ecosystem so that the term Anthropocene makes a career. The term for the current geological era dominated by human activity. Proposed by Paul Crutzen, Nobel laureate in the field of chemistry (1995), an employee of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) prepared a special report on the effects of the increase in the average surface temperature of the Earth by 1.5 ° Celsius from pre-industrial times. The report was published in October 2018. The conclusion contained in it states that after global warming by 2° Celsius, self-perpetuating climate processes led to the fall of humanity as the dominant form of life. And that with the current realities there is no chance to stop this growth. The disaster will probably take place in the perspective of several decades.

The narration of the Wanderlust cycle assumes an optimistic scenario in which, after all, the ecosystem has not completely disappeared. And life survived in a reduced, atrophistic form.

In the visual sphere, it is a confirmation of simple, figurative oil painting.