Contributor: John K. Grande

John K. Grande is Curator Emeritus of Earth Art at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario. (www.rbg.ca) He is the author of Balance: Art and Nature (Black Rose Books , 1994), Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists (State University of New York Press, 2007, (www.sunypress.edu) , and Dialogues in Diversity: Art from Marginal to Mainstream, Pari Publishing, Italy, 2008 (www.paripublishing.com). He is co-author of Nils-Udo: Kunst Mit Natur (Aachen: Ludwig Forum, 1999) and Le Mouvement Intuitif: Patrick Dougherty and Adrian Maryniak (Brussels: Atelier Muzeum 340, 2005). His latest books are The Landscape Changes (Propect/Gaspereau Press, 2009), Bob Verschueren; Natura Humana (Editions Mardaga 2010).

how to be in time with time

Art can guide our society towards a regenerative view of life, and bring us closer to the instinctive life force and physical energies that are part of our universal experience. The artist can direct their energies towards a re-souling of art, where integral values are based on real communication, between self and environment, between humanity and the ecosystem.