Patryk Fingas

(6ds/m, Micro Salts, 37.929162, -8.079490, 2022)

Anthropocene Terraformation Deforestation Industrial Revolution Economy Profit Extraction Degradation Chemical Fertilisers&Pesticides Agricultural Intensification Monoculture Climate Change Desertification Flooding Survival Sustainability

Patryk C, Fingas (b, 1997, Kalisz, Poland) is an environmental artist, designer, photographer and researcher. Through his creative lens, he explores Nature's beauty, degradation and rights in the modern world of the Anthropocene. Through the fusion of art, science and architecture, his work approaches to construct a transversal visual language for georeferenced environmental struggles making climate change data accessible for everyone despite place, distance, language or culture where everyone and anyone can interpret his art and graphics to read up on Nature's struggle

Expanding on his project, Fingas began to develop the TNS (Time For Nature To Speak) website, which aims to bring ecology and artists together, proposing a virtual map-based multimedia platform for research artists to exhibit their work and share their knowledge bringing Nature to our virtual pop culture and debate.

(Beja, Intensive Monocrop Fields,37.994579, -7.912999, September, 2022)

"Interdisciplinary approaches are needed if we are to understand and solve the problems facing the planet", "artist's function is to search, to discover value, to value discovery, to discover qualities of value"

Andrew Brown, Art and Ecology Now, (2009)

Our realities, ways of being, culture, traditions, and environment have changed several times. We are yet again standing at the front of another revolution which is yet to determine if we survive the forthcoming 1000 years and how. Creativity being the turbine of change, is at the forefront of influencing our future existence, but for that to happen, all professions need to cooperate in one synchronised direction to benefit not only us but, most importantly, the natural environments which construct Nature's balance.

Launch Project

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TNS

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Online Project

Fertiliser Salt Crystals

Alfalfa Salt Conditioned

The Growing Salt Crystal

Roxo Dam Salts, Portugal, 2023

Olive Leaf Cells

Salt Conditioned Olive Leaf

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Micro Photography and video

ecology human-nature-relationship microscope nature-education

Agricultural Map of Portugal

Agricultural Map of Roxo Dam, Portugal

Horsham District Environmental Map

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GIS Site Mappings (Digital)

agriculture ecology landscapes mapping

The Next Millennium?

PDF: The Next Millennium

Creative piece of writing exploring environmental struggles through planetary personification.

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Creative Writing

Salt Stalactites

Salt Stalactites (1)

Salinized Forest – Installation exhibited in Flower Bed Gallery., inspired by the Australian fires (2020) bringing debate over increasingly salinized soils, terraformations and intensive agriculture.

Salinized Forest (1)

Forest Shroud – Partially decomposed canvas by forest ecologies, commenting on human temporary time on planet earth.

Rusting Salt Wall – This work expresses our passing time. The temporary presence of us and manmade objects which through time Nature takes apart returning us and the objects back to the environmental cycle.

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Multimedia

Patryk Fingas

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