Material: quilted plastic plants,google earth screen shots ,discarded computer graphics card
This piece couples Google Earth screenshots with quilted plastic plants (left) and a discarded computer graphics card (right).
As I quilted the plastic plants together, they began to resemble the view of agricultural land from airplane windows—those patchwork fields I'd seen on countless flights. When I discovered the computer graphics card, I was struck by how much it resembled an aerial cityscape. These visual echoes felt intentional rather than coincidental. What both materials resembled pointed to the same phenomenon: our attempts to manufacture nature don't recreate her raw essence, but produce something entirely different—a synthetic patchwork.
Meanwhile, cities built from technology require that same technology for us to exist within them. Technology becomes our substitute for connection when we're so removed from the natural world in urban contexts.
In this piece, I wanted to draw visual parallels between technology/cities and manufactured nature—examining how we replicate organic systems at both intimate and vast scales.
