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HOME
March 2025, Paris
Home. March two thousand twenty-five. Sixty years old. And I was painting bear. Brown bear. Sitting. On logs. Cut tree trunks. Piled. Forest destroyed. And bear looks us. Directly. Eyes into eyes. And title. Home. House. Hearth. Habitat. But which. Bear lost home. Forest cut. Trees felled. Logs piled. Destined sawmill. Become planks. Build human homes. And bear sitting on vestiges its destroyed home. Cruel irony. Bear home becomes material human home. And bear displaced. Refugee animal. Like me exiled. Twenty-two years Paris. Romania lost. Home lost. And identification that. Bear equals me. Displaced. Sitting on ruins. Habitat destroyed. And looks. Us. Spectators. Humans. Responsible. Destroyers. And silent accusation. Why. You destroyed my home. To build yours. Selfishness. Anthropocentrism. Humans center. Nature periphery. Resource. Exploitable. And consequences. Animals displaced. Ecosystems destroyed. Climate disrupted. And we continue. Cut trees. Build homes. Concrete steel glass. And nature recedes. Disappears. And bear sitting. Looks. Witness. Victim. And us. Guilty. And March two thousand twenty-five. Context. Amazon deforestation records. Canada fires. European droughts. Climate collapsing. Biodiversity disappearing. Sixth extinction. And bear symbol. All animals displaced. All nature destroyed. For human homes. Comfort. Growth. Profit. And question. Was it worth. Destroy nature. To build civilization. Which now also collapsing. Because without nature. No life. Humans included. And bear looks. Awaits answer. We have none.
I remember March two thousand twenty-five, and winter ending, spring arriving, and catastrophic climate news, February record heat Europe, March droughts begin, and Amazon deforestation continues despite promises, and Canada fires previous summer two thousand twenty-four worst ever, and biodiversity UN report, one million species threatened extinction, and me sixty years, and fatigue, and sadness, and powerlessness, art can what face catastrophe, witness, denounce, but change, and March idea came, paint displaced animal, destroyed habitat, and bear perfect symbol, large mammal, intelligent, sensitive, and victim deforestation, humans cut forests, bears lose homes, identification, lost home, Romania far, and bear same, forest cut, logs not home, in-between, displaced, and title “Home” ironic, where is home, destroyed, disappeared, and bear sitting on logs, vestiges home, material human home future, and destruction cycle, nature destroyed build civilization, and comparison fifteen years before, Me God of Earth two thousand ten, man titan carries civilization, hubris, pretends dominate, and fifteen years later Home March two thousand twenty-five, bear sitting logs, nature destroyed, forced humility, passage pride to powerlessness statement, and evolution my work reflection evolution world, two thousand ten belief power, two thousand twenty-five ongoing collapse.
And I began painting, brown bear, brown chocolate fur, detailed, fur texture, and sitting posture, front paws on ground, back folded, almost human position, and head turned toward us spectators, direct gaze, expressive eyes, sad questioning, and facial expression, bear capable expressions, and here sadness resignation, and logs piled disorderly, thick trunks, bark torn off some, cut surfaces clean saw, and light orange wood, contrast brown bear fur, and quantity logs, heaping, entire forest cut, and blurred background, suggests remaining forest far, or gray sky, or emptiness, desolation, and palette dominant browns, brown bear, dark brown bark, light orange cut wood, and gray touches sky background, and natural earth palette, but also sadness, dark colors, and diffuse light, gray day, no sun, melancholic atmosphere, and composition horizontal, stability, but bear small face logs, crushed, and wide format two hundred eighty, spectator immersion, face to face bear impossible escape, and bear gaze captures holds, and March two thousand twenty-five I painted several weeks, slowly, meditating, each brushstroke reflection, deforestation, extinction, exile, lost home, and bear emerged progressively, brown sad dignified, and logs piled, witnesses destruction, and blurred background, desolation, and finished painting, signed dated Home 2025, and title irony, home where, destroyed, and bear looks us, and we look it, and recognition perhaps, mirror, it displaced we also, it lost home we also, and tragic solidarity, victims all, and guilty also, humans, and responsibility, and guilt, and powerlessness, and sadness, and bear waits, and we no answer.
And powerful symbolism, bear symbolic animal, nature strength, wild, and here vulnerable, displaced, and logs cut trees, deforestation, and multiple causes, timber industry, agriculture livestock soy Amazon, urbanization, roads, and consequences, destroyed habitats, displaced animals die, and bear symbol all animals, birds insects mammals, all lose homes, and sixth extinction ongoing, massive species disappearance, and humans responsible, and bear looks us, silent accusation, why you do this, and answer, for our homes, build houses cities, and title irony Home, bear loses home so we have ours, and selfishness anthropocentrism, humans center, nature periphery resource, and Descartes philosophy, man master possessor nature, and industrial modernity, maximum exploitation, and now consequences, climate disrupted, biodiversity disappears, and humans also threatened, because without nature no life, oxygen food water, everything comes nature, and destroy nature equals destroy ourselves, and bear witness, looks, waits, and we no answer, continue cutting, building, consuming, and until total collapse, and bear sitting, patient resigned, knows already outcome, and sadness that, lucidity, bear conscious perhaps, lost home never returns, forest cut, and it die, or wander, and end.
And title Home multiple meanings, home English, why not French maison foyer, and English universality, lingua franca, and also sonority, Home, one word, simple direct, and ironic meaning, lost home, destroyed home, home where, and also human home versus animal home, opposition, and human home built on ruins animal home, and logs construction material, forest trees become beams planks floors, and human home materially destroyed animal home, and extraction cycle, and also home planet Earth, only home all, humans animals, and we destroying, and then where go, no other planet, and Earth home equals home all, and destroy nature equals destroy our own home, and collective suicide, and bear symbol that, displaced, but we also will be displaced, climate forced migrations, climate refugees, and bear precursor, shows human future, displaced, sitting on ruins, looking emptiness, and where go, and March two thousand twenty-five, climate migrations begin, droughts famines wars, and people flee, Africa Middle East Asia, and Europe closes borders, and irony, Europe climate cause, colonialism extraction, and now refuses welcome victims, and bear looks, and judges, and we guilty.
And comparison other works, Me God of Earth two thousand ten fifteen years before, man titan carries civilization, hubris divine pretension, and Home March two thousand twenty-five, bear sitting logs, humility destroyed nature, and passage, pride to powerlessness, domination to victim, and also Bigger Faster April two thousand twenty five years before, mechanical bird childhood nostalgia, growth critique, and Home, growth consequences, nature destroyed, and also Magic Potion August two thousand twenty-four seven months before, Obelix oil dependence, destruction cause, and Home, destruction result, disappeared habitat, and logical progression, my works witness catastrophe evolution, cause consequence, and Home culmination perhaps, cycle end, nature destroyed, animals displaced, and humans also soon, and also personal identification, bear equals me, exiled, lost home, Romania far, and sitting Paris studio, metaphorical logs, life ruins, and twenty-two years exile, and solitude, and looks, witnesses, paints, and art home perhaps, only remaining home, creation space, and paintings witnesses, symbolic survival, and bear also witness, looks, and waits, and art and nature, witnesses, victims, survivors perhaps, or not.
And pictorial facture, oil canvas, thick generous impasto, and bear painted love detail, each fur hair, fur texture, and expressive eyes, living gaze, visible soul, and logs painted carefully, rough bark, smooth light wood, clean cut surfaces, and quantity logs, piles, disorder, chaos, and palette dominant browns, infinite nuances, dark brown bear, brown bark, orange wood, and gray touches sky, and natural colors, earth, but dark, sadness, and diffuse light gray day, no harsh contrasts, melancholic softness, and brushstrokes wide quick some places, slow meditative others, and paint matter thick, tactile, palpable fur, rough wood, and horizontal composition, stability, but bear small face logs, crushed, and wide format two hundred eighty, spectator immersion, face to face bear impossible escape, and bear gaze captures holds, and March two thousand twenty-five I painted several weeks, slowly, meditating, each brushstroke reflection, deforestation, extinction, exile, lost home, and bear emerged progressively, sad dignified brown, and logs piled, destruction witnesses, and blurred background, desolation, and finished painting, signed dated Home 2025, and title irony, home where, destroyed, and bear looks us, and we look it, and recognition perhaps, mirror, it displaced we also, it lost home we also, and tragic solidarity, victims all, and guilty also, humans, and responsibility, and guilt, and powerlessness, and sadness, and bear waits, and we no answer.
And March two thousand twenty-five painting hung studio, bear looks daily, and reminds, destroyed nature, displaced animals, and human responsibility, and me also displaced and identification and bear silent companion, witness and mute dialogue and questions, where is home, lost and how find, impossible perhaps and acceptance that, home lost definitively and learn live without, permanent displaced, eternal exiled and bear same and all animals and soon all humans, climate refugees, displaced, seeking lost homes and entire Earth becomes non-place, without home and universal wandering and bear sitting logs, home end, wandering beginning and March two thousand twenty-five and forever Home, forever bear sitting logs, forever destroyed forest, forever cut trees, forever disappeared habitat, forever displaced animal, forever sad gaze, forever silent accusation, forever we guilty, forever lost home, forever ironic title, forever human home built ruins animal home, forever selfishness anthropocentrism, forever nature periphery resource, forever deforestation extinction, forever sixth extinction, forever biodiversity disappears, forever climate disrupted, forever climate migrations, forever refugees, forever exiled, forever identification bear me, forever displaced, forever lost home never returns, forever sitting ruins, forever looking emptiness, forever awaiting answer, forever we no answer, forever Home.
