What is behind this trend towards plants?
One runs. Every day we all feel like we are chasing time. This is no longer a scoop. We are focused on the daily tasks, and when we stop, exhausted by this mad rush, the need to go back to basics is felt. No wonder then this craze for organic produce, vegetable gardens and rural areas which have become “trends”. Without going into an eco-bobo-chic-speech-I-don't-feel-guilty-at-all-because-I-planted-a-tomato-plant-on-my-balcony, nature remains without context the best medicine for a healthy life.
A little depression? Go! I'm running to buy myself a sweater for 150 €! Enjoyable! But not sure that the emotion provoked by this purchase remains engraved in my brain.
Several scientific studies show the impact of nature and green spaces on our mental and physical health, our emotions and even our productivity at work. Against the sweater, a good walk in the forest or the ocean spray will be more effective in clearing your mind and anchoring nature as a remedy for depression. So, as the race is not over, the majority of the population is city-dwellers, and because I doubt that the Anna Wintour decorators live in a hamlet in Vercors without wifi (too bad for them), there is no it is no wonder that flowers are imposed on our interiors. For lack of nearby forest, we therefore dress our cocoons with tapestries with lush vegetation, wicker armchairs, fern green and tropical blue ...
We bring nature to us, and that feels good! Hoping that the call of nature ends there, because not sure that animal cries serve for inner serenity. Now it's up to us not to confuse the pretty lime green color with the real smell of lime, the touch of its last wicker rocking chair and the bark of a tree ...
Drawing nature is not enough to experience it. So let's get out for some fresh air, fill our lungs and heads with fresh air! Let's go get inspiration!
" Beauty arises from the gaze of Man on Nature, but the gaze of Man arises from Nature." Hubert Reeves