Chaos - Everything Is Connected - further research

While researching for my project I started with interpreting the word "chaos" define it's meaning, reaching the final conclusion, that chaos can be negative but also a positive word, because chaos is the beginning of everything - starting from the creation of the World as we know it for example. I researched some philosophical, psychological, mathematical and art interpretation of the word.

At first my idea was to create a project, that would show how we as humans create, how our brain works and how we reach a final idea through all the chaos of information that flows through us daily. That was my idea until the point that I talked with a few photographers about my idea, showed them my previous works, and they actually liked my "Dreams" project very much. One proposed me to actually do something about the environmental topic, and more specifically on the way we, the people communicate with the nature in a city environment. How there is less and less nature in the city and we actually forget how specific places looked like because of too much buildings everywhere. And I got interested, because this is a major problem in my country for example - there is too much construction and no nature, less and less parks and if there are some - they don't look like they're supposed to.

I found a book full of Mandala diagrams. It looked interesting, because as I found out the psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self," and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality. In common use, mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the universe from the human perspective.We all deep down are connected with Nature. Reaching our inner connection with our roots would help us understand the chaos all around us and help us find a way to reunite with our own selves. At first when you look at a Mandala diagram it looks a but chaotic, but if you look further you realise it is actually structured and planned proportionally. This is something that I liked as a visual technique for my project. Representing our chaotic structure using something seemingly chaotic, but very interesting as a symbol and usage. The interesting thing is, that Mandalas are used not only in Eastern religion, but all around the world, using different naming. I decided to show the nature in the city through a Mandala prism.

All this led me to start a research on how "landscape" and "cityscape" work together. I researched some architectural, design and art movements. I looked for movements connected with nature and civilisation. And what better representation of that than Art Nouveau.
It was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants but also in curved lines. Architects tried to harmonise with the natural environment. It is also considered a philosophy of design of furniture, which was designed according to the whole building and made part of ordinary life.
Art Nouveau was most popular in Europe, but its influence was global. According to the philosophy of the style, art should be a way of life. It was influenced also by Japonism, that puts Nature in the centre of it's philosophy.

A man from Bristol - world known Banksy is a very creative artist, that tackles the issue of pollution of nature. With his graffiti art and installations displayed on various sites around cities he provokes the public. He makes us think about the consequences. 
In 2005 he hung his version of a primitive cave painting in the British Museum. It depicted a human figure hunting wildlife while pushing a shopping trolley and it remained on the walls of the museum for eight days. Similar stunts at the Tate Modern, New York Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History have delighted his growing army of admirers.