Nathan Wilson

My art is a confluence of my love of nature, my love of technology and my impulse to share these things with others. The process starts with digital photographs which I recombine following gut instinct to discover new relationships between the photos, the subjects and myself.

Primarily a personal exploration, the images are also an effort to share my journey with the people who see the images. There is nothing more statisfying for me than having other people get excited by what they see in my art.

I started this web gallery to share my art with a wider audience. It is an opportunity for me to share what I have discovered and for others to share what they have discovered with me.. I find the ways that technology is changing how we think about ownership to be particularly exciting. At the forefront of this process of change is the open source software movement. My art has been largely created with open source software and the creative commons license provided with all the images and text in this website shares that heritage.

Much of my personal art work has a strong connection to both technology and the natural world. So many things in our culture tell us to think of nature and technology as being in opposition rather than woven from the fabric. However, technology follows a similar process of evolution and is ultimately just an extension of our own nature.

Nathan Wilson
http://www.collectivesource.com
nathan at siteforevolvingart dot org
December 4, 2004
Revised: July 31, 2005