more Bryan Nash Gill- Honey Locust. 

I’ve had several debates with friends about “nature vs. nurture”, and this is a visualization of why I lean heavily towards nurture. The wikipedia article suggests that genetics play a huge part in what a person is like; supposedly, adoptive siblings are no more similar in personality by adulthood than 2 random strangers.  But I stick to nurture because the newer thinking that nurture encompasses a lot more than family upbringing.  Two children in the same family still go through a world of different experiences in their lifetimes. 

Joe Parra suggested that maybe I inside on “nurture” because I refuse to accept that things are out of my control.  That may be true, but it’s really not like anyone has that much control over the things that happen to them.  C’est la vie.

Studies show that there is a high correlation between genetics and IQ, but will not accept the idea that anyone is predestined to be more intelligent than anyone else.  Studies like that just lead you to entertain the idea that certain genes, gene pools, and to a farther stretch, races, are just born superior. 

Sure, this is a tree and not a human being, but I think of them in similar ways.  This tree is completely unique because of the things that happened to it throughout its life, and this print tells that story.  As the tree’s first sprouting, no one could predict exactly what the rings would look like, even given the genes.  Surely, a human could be no more predictable.

(Source: rerylikes)

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    Bryan Nash Gill. Honey Locust 1/1 - 24 1/2” x 23 3/4”, relief print, 2010

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