NUTRIENT FLAMES
Reimagining the Dance of Fire and Life.
Artist Statement
In “Nutrient Flames”, I use ambient light, depth, and movement to symbolize flames, and to celebrate fire’s power to nourish and transform.
Inspired by
First cooking fires predate Homo sapiens
When we first learned to cook food it was one of the most important evolutionary moments of our species. It’s what transformed us into modern humans. A new study shows that early humans were cooking much further back in history than previously thought. Nutrients required for brain growth may have come from cooked fish. It is believed that Homo erectus communities of the so-called Acheulian culture (South Africa) show some of the earliest evidence of controlled fire use for cooking, a critical step in human evolution. This culture flourished during the Lower Paleolithic period, roughly 1.7 million to 200,000 years ago, across Africa, Europe, and parts of Asia.” sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans
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