Nature & me

At the heart of the Nature & me cycle is the focus on perception. On nature, mostly. Walking through forests, watching trees, grasses, bushes, stones, plants, listening to and watching streams, their rapids, pools, rocks ... Diving under the sea, watching the waves, listening to the wind, climbing rocks, watching the plants …
What do these different impressions leave behind? Two things come to mind: rhythms of repetition in an endless variety of solutions and pulsating of vitality.

Vitality pulsates wherever there is life. In fact, the presence of intense pulsating of vitality is unavoidable. However, it is not necessarily also perceived. Detection requires sufficient openness and sufficiently sensitive perception. (To feel vitality is somewhat analogous to longing. They may even be related.)



From the solo exhibition Nature & me, a practice of sensitivity, with a sculptural contribution by Katja Oblak; paper cast of the rock. Srečišče Gallery, Hostel Celica, Ljubljana, December 2019 and January 2020:

5 color drawings of the sea: legs in the water, 13 meters below, 15 meters bellow, paddling toward the island, a rock on the island.

3 out of the 5 color drawings of the sea: legs in the water, 13 meters below, 15 meters bellow.


Legs in the Water, Minus 13 Meters, Minus 15 Meters, Toward the island, With a Rock Behind the Back, 2019.

5 color drawings of the sea: titles.

2 out of the color drawings of the sea: paddling toward the island, a rock on the island.


Island, 1990

Island in the sea, watercolor.

Island in the sea watercolor and drawings of the forest streams.


Draga creek, 2015

Pencil drawings of the forest stream.

Pencil drawings of the forest stream.


Rock with green moss (Katja Oblak & Julij Borštnik).

Rock with green moss, front (Katja Oblak & Julij Borštnik).

Rock with green moss, side (Katja Oblak & Julij Borštnik).

Rock with green moss, rear (Katja Oblak & Julij Borštnik).


Paper cast of the rock with moss by Katja Oblak, 2019.

Paper cast of the rock with moss by Katja Oblak, front.

Paper cast of the rock with moss by Katja Oblak, from the side.

Paper cast of the rock with moss by Katja Oblak, back.


videos By the Creek, 2019 and On a Bike, 2016.

Video screen: child playing at the forest stream.

Video screen: through the island bushes on a bike.


Island Grass, 2016.

5 photos of the island grass close-up.


Forest Stream, 2015

2 photos of the flowers near the forest stream.

Forest stream rapids.

2 paintings of the forest stream.

Beneath the surface of the forest stream.

Waterfall in the forest.

Exibition.


Careful, regular observation of nature also reveals the rhythms in the diversity of solutions: Patterns of repetition in a boundless variety of forms. An example is the geometric forms of organic growth: The responses of a wide variety of plant species to the challenge of optimal arrangement of leaf veins. We see the boundless diversity, but also the affinity between the solutions. Or the mechanics of running water, where boundless diversity usually fluctuates around a set of optimal solutions. The flows and eddies somehow "overlap". Each change affects all other flows and eddies, while the stream remains in the same bad. (Unless there is a flood. At that point rocks, rapids, even riverbeds move.)



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Mediterranean grass, 1.
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Mediterranean grass, 2.
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Mediterranean grass, 3.
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Mediterranean grass, 4.
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Mediterranean grass, 5.
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Mediterranean grass, 6.
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Mediterranean grass, 7.
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Frozen grass, 1.
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Flooded grass, 1.
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Forest stream rapids, 1.
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Forest stream rapids, 3.
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Large stream pool in the steap hills.
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Waterfall in the steap hills.
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Leaflet NATURE & ME, solo exhibition, with a sculptural contribution by Katja Oblak, Srečišče Gallery, Hostel Celica, Ljubljana, Dec. 2019 and Jan. 2020.
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Julij Borštnik

email: julijb@protonmail.com

phone: +38651237407