Ecofeminism represented in Art

            I personally love nature. I was raised in a family that went camping, hiking and on day road trips to different places in nature. My mom used to take me and my younger sister to pick flowers and explore. These experiences help me to understand ecofeminism. Although I understand ecofeminism, I do not agree with all its points. Ecofeminism shows women as taken advantage of and used, much like our earth. It blames the destruction of earth and degrading of women both to a male dominated society. 

 Upon searching for art on ecofeminism, I became concerned because nothing was really capturing the meaning of ecofeminism to me. For one many of the images were of beautiful naked women. Although the art is beautiful, I felt like it focused on the body of them woman, opposed to the woman as a whole. In my opinion, I dislike that the female body is always being sexualized within media. To me these art pieces feel the same. In media we often see sexualized bodies, with the woman’s face cut off or obscured. These art pieces have done the same thing.

                       

There are also many depictions of “mother nature”. These art pieces are very beautiful and meaningful. However, it felt to me like something was missing. I feel like it misses out on a very crucial aspect in ecofeminism. That earth and women are both subject repeated abuses. In some art I feel like this is missing but I appreciate how it depicts the connection. If I look at these from a different perspective I can see that maybe they are depicting a goal of how intertwined women and nature should be. These mother nature artworks show her as being peaceful, huge and part of the landscape.

            Some art that I favored was more abstract. I liked these ones because they really showed true “nature” to me. Although they show nature, they also use dark tones. These darker tones show that the cycles of women and nature are not always healthy. There is something very beautiful about this art and the depiction of realistic looking women. For example, pregnant women, women with faces and women with clothing. 

 

 

References for images:

 https://www.weact.org/2016/06/growing-the-roots-of-ecofeminism/

https://www.google.com/search?q=ecofeminism+art&client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=ACYBGNSk3DX1XP8knnXLw70LiykiVRc1wQ:1574705927968&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT9djb_IXmAhWSct8KHcfDBX4Q_AUoAXoECBIQAw&biw=1252&bih=600&dpr=1.09#imgrc=KoESepS5HeiwqM:

https://pachamamavida.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/ecofeminism/

https://medium.com/sustainability-gender-and-development-in-the/eco-feminism-is-not-what-you-think-9f855c59dca1

https://medium.com/@chabaneaisha/dear-we-for-she-a-feminists-guide-to-navigating-earth-s-destruction-e3c96dc169b

https://app.emaze.com/@AWZFTWRQ/ecofeminism-in-the-digital-age