Artist’s Statement       My wish as artist has for several years been to link my outdoor works with my interior installations.   Pieces have come about that reflect man as a part of nature. Humans are not directly visible in my works, but   appear in relics such as trash, footprints, etc., or in cultural associations. In the countryside I create my own   spaces and take up the cultural givens of the respective region.       My work outdoors or in landscapes is often felt by many people as superfluous. Art within nature seems to   contradict nature itself. Nature doesn’t need us is the usual argument. What is mostly forgotten is that we   ourselves are part of nature. We will always have a share in nature, also negatively. What is important is that   we do not become oblivious to nature’s unspoiled state and that we thematize her destruction by man.   Conceptual interventions in natural, cultural and city landscapes is one of my deepest concerns,   and showing their human traces in my work another.           Carlotta Brunetti           Translated from the German by Jeanne Haunschild        © 2001