30” x 20” Oil on Board 2026
‘Camille Paglia said, “Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”
I express my subjective experience of beauty with paint in an attempt to slow it, to meditate on it, to savour the specific details of its essence. The perception of a halt is only imagined as even a painting is subject to entropy and decay. There is no true weapon against nature, as ‘nature’ is not outside of us in a position to be attacked or beaten back.
There is an interconnectedness in all things and it is a myth that humans are separate. We exist as part of a larger environment whom we have named as nature and to personify the mythic archetype fully this world is both the benevolent mother and the chaotic destroyer. There is a capacity to experience transcendent awe and the abject terror in ‘the melting flux of nature.’
~Daniel Audet
30” x 20” Oil on Board 2026
‘Camille Paglia said, “Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”
I express my subjective experience of beauty with paint in an attempt to slow it, to meditate on it, to savour the specific details of its essence. The perception of a halt is only imagined as even a painting is subject to entropy and decay. There is no true weapon against nature, as ‘nature’ is not outside of us in a position to be attacked or beaten back.
There is an interconnectedness in all things and it is a myth that humans are separate. We exist as part of a larger environment whom we have named as nature and to personify the mythic archetype fully this world is both the benevolent mother and the chaotic destroyer. There is a capacity to experience transcendent awe and the abject terror in ‘the melting flux of nature.’
~Daniel Audet
