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There exists an ongoing trope in art wherein the artist, so impassioned in their pursuit to become one with nature, describes this process as a literal dissolvement of the self into the earth. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1623), an elemental spirit sings of a shipwrecked king's human form blending into the ocean floor, detailing for audiences how his body parts have scattered into coral and pearls. And this is a tradition that extends both From German Romanticism to Rousseau's cryptic paintings that seem to pull the viewer into the mystic landscape; and more contemporarily too: …