Botanical Recombinants
2008 - present
Botanical Recombinants
Nature provides humans with all they need to sustain themselves, food, water, materials for shelter, and medicinal remedies. Flora is around everyone, everywhere, all though the varieties may vary from geographical locale to locale. Botanical gardens were created to provide scientific research, conservation, display, and education about plants and their environments. The idea of "scientific" gardens explicitly used for the study of plants dates back to antiquity. I have been photographing botanical gardens and flora in various states and countries when I travel.
With the current state of climate change, I have decided to create visual recombinants of various plant life, restructuring their forms and beauty into layered re-interpretations; creating plants with new visual traits. Sometimes the layers peel away or wind around each other, notating the cycle of growth and death. I invite the viewer to slow down, investigate this constructed nature, and consider its value.
Nature provides humans with all they need to sustain themselves, food, water, materials for shelter, and medicinal remedies. Flora is around everyone, everywhere, all though the varieties may vary from geographical locale to locale. Botanical gardens were created to provide scientific research, conservation, display, and education about plants and their environments. The idea of "scientific" gardens explicitly used for the study of plants dates back to antiquity. I have been photographing botanical gardens and flora in various states and countries when I travel.
With the current state of climate change, I have decided to create visual recombinants of various plant life, restructuring their forms and beauty into layered re-interpretations; creating plants with new visual traits. Sometimes the layers peel away or wind around each other, notating the cycle of growth and death. I invite the viewer to slow down, investigate this constructed nature, and consider its value.
