Symbols from nature

Symbols from nature

The natural world with its “intricate cycles of growth, death, decay and renewal” (Quickenden 2000) provide us with many images and motifs that can be used as symbols, metaphors or representations of the happenings in our own lives.

Below is a piece that was made by Sharon Church, titled Envy, she uses images found in nature to create a piece that is symbolic (complex Ideas through Simple Imagery). Church uses the images of a fresh bud and new leaves increasing in size to create a metaphor of the transitory nature youth (Quickenden 2000).

Figure 7 – Church, S., (1997). Envy. 
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