Backed up by the fact that this image is taken from the first panel of the painting, I think it is being used to convey the tranquility found in the lack of human intervention. Birds fly through a fantasy mountain in perfect unison representing the harmony found in nature. However, I thought back to our reading of “Ecology Without Nature,” by Tim Morton and to his quote that “In the name of ecology this book {Nature} is a searching criticism of a term that holds us back from meaningful engagements with what, in essence, nature is all about: things that are not identical to us or our performed concepts. …They beg the question of what counts as human, what counts as nature.” Basically what he is saying is that it is out of the question to divide humans from nature. Putting it into the binary of two different things is completely counterproductive because it glosses over the fact that we are part of nature, and makes us feel like we are issues concerning the planet. Thus I challenged the main idea behind this image, and added the painting “Adam and Eve in Paradise” to introduce the idea of humanity into the nature scene. I tried to do so in a way that didn’t make them stand out, in order to show that humanity doesn’t matter any more than the birds or the mountain, but that they are just a part of the big picture. The other two images in the picture are “Starry Night” and “Meules” by Monet. “Starry Night” is the famous image that depicts a small village and a large spire, with the main focus being on a beautiful background of a night sky filled with stars. “Meules” on the other hand shows hay bales sitting by themselves in the middle of a large field, as the sun rises behind them. I chose both of these images because of how I think they are able to depict humanity coexisting with nature. Both of them contain man made aspects, the hay bales sitting in the field, and the small village underneath the sky. However, they are not what you are immediately drawn to. They exist peacefully as one, representing in my final image how Morton was right in the idea that humans aren’t necessarily different from nature, but that we are just a part of it.