But this awe is increasingly interrupted by a sidelong glance taken from our horizon of postmodernity. The highway back to Eden is long overgrown with a tangle of image and artifice. A series of ironic postmodern photoworks which probe issues of culture and nature. These tableaux images create a quasi romantic pastiche of pop science and kitch cosmology by transporting taxidermy, rubber animals and the like back into the Canadian forest. Nature, by virtue of the human languages that construct it, is always anthropomorphic.
Real nature is nameless.
Life on earth is a seamless texture of protoplasm dancing to a cacophony of sensations and pumped by the pulsating rhythms of stone and sun, water and gravity, carbon and oxygen. Obsessed with measuring its detail, we're virtually blind to the whole. Theological allegory or Hollywood melodrama, nature myths have always mapped our sense of yearning and wonder. But this awe is increasingly interrupted by a sidelong glance taken from our horizon of postmodernity. The highway back to Eden is long overgrown with a tangle of image and artifice.