Animated collage, triptych

‘Naturfolk’ (Eng. ‘primitive people’ or, directly translated, ‘nature people’) according to Nationalencyklopedin is an “older term for people whose culture and society are not part of a civilisation and who were also previously called primitive” but ‘naturfolk’ must also be said to mean people in nature. My nature people are a small flock of half-human animals, human-animal people, tourists and romantics. Maybe on the hunt for something primordial and ‘true’, for a sense of belonging, on the run from civilisation and alienation. According to The Gaia Hypothesis, the earth can be seen as a single unit where all parts interact in a complex self-regulating system; all peoples of the earth, human and non-human, animate and non-animate, together constitute a single organism. Possibly it’s the sensation of being part of Gaia, to be connected with Mother Earth, that the nature people are searching for.