We have a tendency to think of nature as separate from ourselves.

We assume that anything found in the natural world is indeed organic. In

general, nature symbolizes the pure and untreated, the wild and

uncontrolled. We also make similar assumptions about the photograph:

what you see is what you get.

In both nature and photography this is largely untrue, as both are

strongly affected by the conditions which they are created in. There is

always a viewpoint behind a photograph and in the same way there is

human influence on almost every part of the world.

In the process of scratching and burning these negatives I have taken

the object of the negative and broken it back into something

decomposable, using a process which is chaotic and difficult to control.

These images are about the dichotomy they express. They are images of

a represented world and at the same time of a simple delicate object.

They are looking at nature and are printed on plastic. They have been

conceptualized, created and honed and yet look nothing like their

originals.

The distortion in these images express the question I continue to ask as

an artist: How much do we have power over and how much is natural and

intuitive?