CARBON BASED LIFEFORM - Limited Edition of 1 Print

The works presented here investigate the relationship between humans and nature. The environment - flora, fauna, and landscape - is present in many forms. There are images, shapes, and textures that are familiar to eye. Yet, here these familiar forms become unfamiliar because they are presented in surreal contexts. Landscapes become supper dishes, a tiger assumes the role of Atlas, a metropolitan view juxtaposed with an outsize carcass of a bird, a bottled up desert. They offer provocative, often disturbing insights, into the delicate balance of the planet's ecology and how we have wreaked havoc on it. Experiencing these works allows for an introspection of the relationship we share with nature. It makes re-visible, all the damage has been made invisible in humanity's pursuit for progress. It brings into sharp focus our habits and vices, which our cultural and economic systems perpetuate. These images tell stories about how we consume pathologically. Often, this rampant consumption manifests itself in familiar desires—such as greed, gluttony, lust—which are used as lenses to offer insight into our tendency to dominate nature and exploit it ruthlessly without caring for sustainability. Many of the works further highlight this attitude through motifs of trapping, confinement, caging, and killing. We further see the toll of our violence. There are themes of deterioration and extinction which stem from our endless encroachment over the planet and its resources.