Their Names Escape Us
Drawing nature inside and outside the Museum seeks to foster a new way of rethinking our relationship with the natural world, engaging children, young people and families in a creative and transformative exercise that encourages them to reconsider their bond with – and love for – their surroundings. Drawing becomes a space of resistance, learning and care, where imagination acts as a force for change.
Archive of nature drawn inside and outside the Museum
Outdoor drawing serves as a tool for reconnecting with nature. Sketching in the middle of a forest, or between the cracks of a pavement, allows us to contemplate nature by slowing down and paying attention. Any spot – an urban garden, a piece of rough ground, a solitary tree – can be a source of observation and connection. Drawing thus becomes a practice for calming the mind, activating creativity and discovering what remains hidden from our hurried urban gaze.
The Museum can act as an extension of this proposal: a space where nature has entered, where it is expressed and makes itself present through paintings, sculptures and photographs – by different artists and from different historical moments – in which the focus is also on small things: wild plants, silent trees shading the bravest warriors, or sensual flowers that stir lovers. Drawing, inside the Museum, the plant species depicted by artists is a way of drawing a collective memory of species, opening a dialogue between culture and the environment.
Inside or outside the Museum, drawing nature reminds us that the plant world is not merely a scenic backdrop but an essential basis of life; and that creativity is a powerful tool for looking afresh, naming and respecting the forms of life with which we share the planet.
