TEXT & PHOTO: SATITA TARATIS
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Between Coming and Going is a photographic series shaped by years of traveling and observing nature. Along the way, I have encountered places that remain ecologically rich, places undergoing change, and places where aspects of the natural world survive only in memory. These experiences have led me back to a fundamental question: What, exactly, is the relationship between humans and nature?
Our lives depend on soil, water, air, food, and the living beings around us. At the same time, we classify these things as ‘resources’ and transform them in the name of ‘development.’ What happens in one place is often repeated somewhere else, making it impossible not to wonder: What have we learned from what has already come before?
This photographic series gradually moves through three passages of time: what we carry with us from the past, the present in which we are now living, and what still remains before us.
Photographs, memories, fabric, and colors derived from nature are brought together as a way to reconsider these relationships once again—and to reflect on how we are living alongside the world.
Measured against the vast timescale of the Earth, our lives may be no more than fine lines that appear, remain for a while, and then disappear. Yet within that brief span, our choices still leave traces that extend into the lives of others.
Perhaps what needs healing is not nature alone,
but the relationship between humanity and the world.
And while so much still remains before us, I would like to invite us all to look again—and to consider what may be the most important question of all:
During the time we have been given on this Earth, how will we relate to this home, and what kind of world will we pass on to one another?
That question begins now.
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Satita Taratis (Mind), born in 1993, is a visual storyteller whose work explores the relationships between humans, nature, and spirituality. Her practice begins with questions surrounding the climate crisis and invites us to recognize that humans are not separate from rivers, forests, soil, or other living beings. Rather, we all exist within the same web of relationships.