Using various disposable materials, such as plastic, cardboard, and Styrofoam, I meticulously build models of terrestrial, celestial, and microscopic scenes re-imagined as non-biological worlds. The work explores an ambiguity of scale existing somewhere between the cosmic and the subatomic while maintaining a connection to human scale objects. These scenes are built only to be photographed and not to be presented as sculptural installations.

 

The construction of these models is intentionally slow and physical. Each scene is built entirely by hand which is conceptually central to the work. I am intentionally rejecting the human achievements of AI and CGI and instead focusing on materials that represent the wasteful society that created them. The process becomes a meditation on my own participation in our culture and consumption and its relationship to the natural world. It acts as a catharsis to help relieve my anxiety about a distant but possible post-human future where these objects are all that remain. Ironically, all the scenes are destroyed and discarded after the final photograph has been taken.

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This is an ongoing series still in its earliest stages. Each photograph has taken several months and up to a year or more to build, light, photograph and edit. More work will be added over the coming months and years.

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