Historically, man’s relationship with nature has been one of intervention, marked by the human drive to tame its wildness, use its resources and shape it in its own image. My sculpture is a speculative response to the many ways in which we remake nature to suit our own purposes. It questions the assumption that “the artificial” could be an acceptable stand-in for “the real” in regards to human interaction with our natural world. This is examined through a multi-faceted lens that includes ideas like a longing for wilderness and my concern for the developing global environmental emergency.
I intend for my sculptures to have the sensibility of synthetic, fabricated and built objects and environments. Their materiality is at once natural and artificial, organic and manufactured. What is artificial would not simply be a binary for nature, but rather a man-made rendition of something that already exists or a simulation. Jean Baudrillard poses that the “real” no longer exists and that everything is now a simulation. So if nature is “real”, and if the “real” no longer exists, then must nature now be redefined?
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