The Persistence of Nature
My recent work explores mans control over the environment, and this work concentrates on examining the effect that man has had on the landscape, and the way that the landscape has responded. It looks at the relationship between man’s attempt to control and shape his surroundings, and the environments general acceptance of human interference, but it also documents the environments slow and silent fight back.
What starts out as the triumph of man over nature soon becomes eroded and crumbled into a display of decay and distress, leaving only a sense of loss, yet the inevitability of a new more natural beginning. Once human control over a space ends, when man fails to maintain his hold over his surroundings, nature slowly and surely begins to take back what is hers, slowly clawing back what man has taken from her. We see these sights on an almost daily basis, yet they are essentially ignored, until once again man asserts his dominance over the land, and the cycle begins once again.
When people view my work I would like them to be reminded of the ephemeral nature of our existence on earth and how we only temporarily dominate our surroundings, that it is a constant battle between man and nature to control and shape the spaces that we occupy, and that nature is constantly battling to take back that which we have taken from her. I want my images to remind people of our own inevitable progression towards death and the possibility of us then becoming consumed by the land that we once shaped, for nature to continue the slow process of decay, with us at the very heart of it.
Read MoreWhat starts out as the triumph of man over nature soon becomes eroded and crumbled into a display of decay and distress, leaving only a sense of loss, yet the inevitability of a new more natural beginning. Once human control over a space ends, when man fails to maintain his hold over his surroundings, nature slowly and surely begins to take back what is hers, slowly clawing back what man has taken from her. We see these sights on an almost daily basis, yet they are essentially ignored, until once again man asserts his dominance over the land, and the cycle begins once again.
When people view my work I would like them to be reminded of the ephemeral nature of our existence on earth and how we only temporarily dominate our surroundings, that it is a constant battle between man and nature to control and shape the spaces that we occupy, and that nature is constantly battling to take back that which we have taken from her. I want my images to remind people of our own inevitable progression towards death and the possibility of us then becoming consumed by the land that we once shaped, for nature to continue the slow process of decay, with us at the very heart of it.
