Within the experimental avant-garde genre there are many subgenres. One of these subgenres that has gained recent popularity is called natural experimental avant-garde. This includes, but is not limited to, art that occurs naturally in an experimental and avant-garde fashion. You might be asking, “how can something natural also be experimental?” Well, first off, why would a conformist be reading my blog? Secondly, innovation is a key to the experimental avant-garde genre, which nature can produce, as seen in global climate change. And, last of all, if you were really asking this question in the first place, it is suggested that you open your fourth eye before you continue reading. Today, I will be talking about one of the most innovative artists in the movement to date.

Born to a group of beatnik-hippie Japanese Mormon polygamists in 1985, Ilana “The Mother Of Nature” Steinstien was taken away by child protective services at the age of 8 months. She was adopted by a wealthy family soon afterwards in Sherman, Texas that was loving, caring and very providing. She never had to experience the burden of working for her own money a day in her life, also known as the American dream. Steinstien did, however, experience the burden of having too much free time on her hands. She was cleaning out her parent’s mile long garage when she found a professional grade camera at the age of 12, sparking her interest in photography. However, since she was exceptionally wealthy, she lived in a bubble all of her life and no one told her no or that she was bad at something. She continued to take pictures of anything she could and used no photo editing software or lighting. Some saw this as lazy, while the people that weren’t conformists saw the true potential in capturing the beauty of the tiniest things (i.e. practically nothing).

Since her initial interest in photography was discovered she has been published a total of four times. Her most recent publication in Experimental Avant-garde Monthly got her an Emmy nomination for Best Comedy Series, which was the result of a typo, titled I Found This In My Laundry.

Despite her last publication being a decade ago she is still hard at work, producing some of the most abstract unedited and uncreative art in decades. Stay tuned later this week as The Mother Of Earth will be presenting her first ever natural experimental avant-garde slideshow right here, on this blog!