#Gaia project apes series#

On entering the room, in which two lamps with reflectorswere burning, one lighting up his father's and the other hismother's portrait, he remembered what his last relations with hismother had been. In this drawingroom his mother had died three monthsbefore. WhenCorney had gone away with the supper things, Nekhludoff moved tothe tea urn and was about to make himself some tea, but hearingAgraphena Petrovna's footsteps, he went hurriedly into thedrawingroom, to avoid being seen by her, and shut the door afterhim. He wished to be left alone, and it seemed tohim that everybody was bothering him in order to spite him. Nekhludoff looked at Corney with afeeling of illwill. Yes, sir,' said Corney, yet he did not go, but began clearingthe supper off the table. She had not even deserved hard labour.Atone for a fault by paying money? Had he not then, when he gaveher the money, thought he was atoning for his fault? He could not abandon a woman he had loved, andsatisfy himself by paying money to an advocate to save her fromhard labour in Siberia. How was he to break off his relations with Mary Vasilievna andher husband in such a way as to be able to look him and hischildren in the eyes? How disentangle himself from Missy? Howchoose between the two oppositesthe recognition that holdingland was unjust and the heritage from his mother? How atone forhis sin against Katusha? This last, at any rate, could not beleft as it was. Is it possible that he, too, will deceive?' she thought 'afterall that has happened it would be very bad of him.' 'Shameful and horrid horrid and shameful'

'And that father of hers, with hisdoubtful past and his cruelties, and the belesprit her mother,with her doubtful reputation.' All this disgusted him, and alsomade him feel ashamed. It was with disgust that he remembered herfine shoulders and arms. Itwas Missy, who had devised an excuse for calling him into herroom just as she was ready to go to a ball, so that he should seeher in her ball dress. 'Are you coming tomorrow?'Īh, how horrid' The baredshoulders of the portrait reminded him of another, a young woman,whom he had seen exposed in the same way a few days before. Remember that what is important to you is important to yourfriends,' she said. I suppose it is some affaire d'amour propre ilest tres susceptible, notre cher Mitia.' What is it? Comme cela m'intrigue,' said Katerina Alexeevna. 'I am notgoing to have any supper,' he said to his manservant Corney, whofollowed him into the diningroom, where the cloth was laid forsupper and tea. 'Everything is horrid and shameful,' hemuttered, as he stepped into the porch of his house. It is therefore timely and necessary that Gaia Project has arrived.Shameful and horrid, horrid and shameful' he repeated tohimself, with reference not only to his relations with Missy butalso to the rest. The interconnected ecological, cultural, social, and economic global crises (Climate Change just being one significant symptom), have now emerged as a poignant and critically relevant presence throughout the arts and cultural sectors across the world.

#Gaia project apes series#

Alongside other integrated curatorial activity (social events, exhibitions, etc.) Gaia Project publishes mostly in limited edition series – primarily, artist monographs and theoretical anthologies. Its purpose is to make forms of critical and creative writing, artists’ monographs and exhibition catalogues in this interdisciplinary field widely accessible – supporting the international Ecological Art community with new voice through which to communicate its transformative, vanguard vision. With a collaborative and ethical ethos, Gaia Project is a small, not-for-profit, independent publishing and curatorial initiative operating at the intersection of Art and Ecology – or indeed, in that poetic space where Art becomes Ecology, and where Ecology becomes Art. Founded in 2014 by artist-curator, James Brady.