ARTIST STATEMENT
The focus of this investigation was to explore how nature reacts to humanity. To do this I took two approaches, scientifically and personally. I used humanity’s love of science and the need to understand our environment to create a work that collects and documents objects found within my environment. As well as using similar objects to display elements of our existence that science can never fully comprehend, such as the balance between life and death, and what happens to us after our souls cross over.
ARTWORK PROCESS
Attempting to emulate the pursuit of knowledge, and the human need to categorise nature, through a scientific contemporary lens, the work contains items collected from nature, such as insects, plants, animal bones, crystals, and homemade dyes, in jars. It contextualises the local environment and species by collecting, cataloguing, and confining nature into man-made structures, mimicking the scientific method, and how we as a society have done this with our natural environment. The species collected are from the local environment, allowing the audience to recognise, and consider them from their own lives.
