2015, various found materials, soil, alfalfa, clover, sunflowers, and a boxwood.
As an artist I work at the intersection of art and science. Through small
interventions and large installations, I explore the relationship between people and
the environment that we live in, while providing a new method of interaction,
through my work, between the two.
Control: Secondary Nature, is a microcosm of the constant interventions into the
world around us, required to prevent, change, or undo problems caused by our
previous interventions. Each floating container houses a plant meant to suck some
contaminant from the soil, or filter groundwater in some way, but they’re isolated
from each other, and from the Earth itself. The room is difficult to navigate, and will
become more and more so with further additions, further attempts to remedy a
created problem.
