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Virtual Exhibition

Aging Soul, Aging Earth by Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

This solo exhibition is based on my book Aging Soul, Aging Earth, in which personal reflection and environmental awareness intersect. The paintings extend the book’s central idea: that the aging of the human soul and the aging of the planet are parallel processes shaped by time, memory, neglect, and endurance.

In this body of work, landscapes function as emotional and psychological spaces rather than descriptive views. Erosion, instability, and altered atmospheres echo the internal experience of aging—both personal and collective. Climate change is approached not as an abstract global phenomenon, but as a lived condition, unfolding slowly and leaving visible marks.

Through layered surfaces, restrained gestures, and shifting tonalities, the paintings reflect accumulation rather than rupture. The Earth, like the self, carries its history within it. These works invite viewers to consider responsibility, care, and awareness as ethical responses to both environmental decline and human vulnerability.

Aging Soul, Aging Earth proposes that attention itself is an act of resistance: to look closely, to acknowledge change, and to recognize what is fragile before it disappears.

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