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After beginning thinking about new work, I have learnt a little about Gaia theory. I am finding the nostalgia of crackpot british science, especially that which is pioneered by Dr James Lovelock in the 1960's a real influence, in terms of the way an idea seen as ridiculous can represent something valid.

James Lovelock argues that such things as the level of oxygen, the formation of clouds, and the saltiness of the oceans may be controlled by interacting physical, chemical and biological processes. He believes that "the self-regulation of climate and chemical composition is a process that emerges from the rightly coupled evolution of rocks, air and the ocean - in addition to that of organisms. Such interlocking self-regulation, while rarely optimal - consider the cold and hot places of the earth, the wet and the dry - nevertheless keeps the Earth a place fit for life.

(Cited from text by Bruno Comby, independant researcher, president of EFN, friend of James Lovelock)

In this project Lovelock's text is something I intend on revisiting in different conceptual realisations, and reinterpreting its ever increasing relevance in the current societal awareness of our changing climate.
Lovelock's scientific practice was ignored when he presented his ideas, but Gaia has now become a respected idea.

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