Composite Wall Mural of Nature: A Glimpse into Our Living World

Composite Wall Mural of Nature

A Glimpse into Our Living World

 Wall Mural Paintings by Dr Abe V Rotor 

Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Wonder how our world looks like when the sky, land and sea are combined into one piece like a jigsaw puzzle, the trees becoming part of the sky, the clouds merging with the sea, the mountains and hills flowing down the valley, and all things living and non-living are arranged into one peaceful network. 

 

The deep sea and the vast sky are but one, as fish and birds merge yet distinct and free in their own habitats, the sun and other elements of life keeping them in unity and harmony through homeostasis a biological phenomenon we may never fully understand.   

And when we find silence in its deepest expression, it is the breeze passing, birds chirping, crickets fiddling, gecko calling, mist turning into dewdrops, or the silence on the distant hills and meadows, that inspire man to create his greatest compositions in colors, music and literature, albeit a child drawing the clouds, or sailing  on a stream with a leaf adrift.   

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The waterfall roars and settles down into a stream, joins a river, taking with it many a laughter, sweat and tear, yet it brings new life to fields and pastures, wakes up seeds and flowers, and down it continues its journey to the estuaries, shores and the sea like a returning child, only to be reborn into cloud and rain, onto the watershed where it begins as a waterfall again.  

Rocks may appear lifeless at first, yet they are the precursor of life itself, the birthplace of algae, fungi, and their special symbiotic kin the lichens, and soon they soften and exfoliate into soil.  The lowly moss settles down, followed by ferns and lianas forming a prototype forest, which through time, evolves into a true forest, a transformation in biodiversity and ecological evolution beyond our lifetime, yet  many generations in the future benefit out of the process and ultimately its final state as an ecosystem. 

More than knowledge and subsequently wisdom in some ways, lies the lighter side of human nature that takes us into a realm of happiness and joy, a state of the mind, which we have the capacity to share with others, thus earning for us the role as disciples of creation, and therefore protectors of Mother Earth.   

How little do we understand the mystery of Creation no mortal could possibly share, even with the genius of man we extoll to be the apex of rationality.  Now and then we are reminded of our frailty, our folly and lofty dreams, to conquer darkness in the way we attempt to fill the emptiness of our lives, offer the fullest reverence to the One responsible of everything in our world and the whole universe, through the arts in its holistic expression, the Humanities. ~