Adaptation, 2019

Adaptation is an installation that offers a view of the Anthropocene. Through collage sculptures, composed from glossy coffee table nature photography books found at Saskatoon’s used book sales,  I critique the human tendency to commodify the natural world. I morph these images with sculpting, collage, and paper cutting to create bizarre transformations that reflect the chaos of human intervention in nature and the mayhem caused by insatiable human curiosity. As I light the precarious sculptures, I create an alternate world on the walls and floor of the gallery through their dramatic shadows. By bringing all of these sculptural collages together in the gallery, I compose an environment that mirrors the landscapes of the Anthropocene. It is an environment cobbled together from native, introduced, and invasive species. Adaptation beckons the viewer to question the line between what is natural and what is the product of human intervention. 

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