Natural Law
This body of work documents natural and artificial environments and their relationship to one another. The work questions whether it is possible for a manufactured habitat and a natural one to coexist in harmony, and the extent to which Natural Law takes effect once an ecosystem has undergone dramatic change.

The photographs in the exhibition depict boundaries that have been staked out through the physical act of making and leaving marks. Human constructions, such as hydro towers, signage, construction sites, and brightly lacquered parking spaces are indexes that identify human habitat and allude to a feral territorial instinct. The photographs also point to the futility of demarcating and structuring space by artificial means. An incursion of cracks in the pavement threatens to overtake a brightly lacquered parking space for expectant mothers and vegetation obscures billboards and signage, suggesting that land can never be permanently surpressed. Despite extensive infrastructure, impenetrable fencing, and billboards marking industrial progress, Natural Law defies the glossy veneer of civilization to blur the boundaries between natural and artificial, toxic and organic, as the environment seeks to adapt and re-invent itself.

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