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“Nature’s Way” is an exhibition demonstrating how artists select their subject matter when creating a work of art. Oftentimes artists are drawn to depict what they  see, both in the outside world, and in their own mind’s eye. Motivated by beauty, curiosity, emotion, and technology, artists often pursue making art as a means of better understanding their thoughts or tools.

There are also those artists who let the tools and materials show them what they can do unleashed by typical controls imposed like the use of a brush in painting. This type of artist revels in the random happy accident, relying on it to teach them more about the unseen forces in the world around us.

Guiding this interest ireferences the Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius, circa 99 - 55 BC. Titus Lucretius Carus is credited with being one of the first philosophers to propose that humans are not subjected to fate, or rewards and punishment by the Gods. He posits that we are a part of a universe composed of atoms. Their fate is based on scientific reasons, rather than supernatural ones. 

In Lucretius’ poem, “On the Nature of Things” he discusses that atoms have a swerve, resulting in a type of behavior that he refers to as “free will.” This free will directs internal agency, from the atomic level on up to all living creatures, and humans. This agency allows us the space for passion, imagination and our human need for creativity.

For ”Nature’s Way”, fifty-four ODETTA Digital artists are offering works that demonstrate their inner voice, that inner stirring that prompts them to make a work of art, in order to understand their subject better.