The depictions of nature play an integral part in bringing attention to the city itself in the absence of time and people, either in direct contrast with the thick, unkempt landscapes of nature that surround it, or the city's relationship with nature as a metaphor to our own

relationship with the city.

 

In Paris, the architectural geometry of the urban landscape moulds the trees and plants that inhabit its parks, paths and corners. At the city's expense, trees are pruned and shaped for several reasons, sometimes to prevent obstruction, sometimes in mind of health and safety, sometimes to be purely aesthetic.

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The Nature of Nature begins by merging views and ideas inspired by an emotional awareness with poetic texts referring to the internal landscapes of the mind. The series challenges how we may characterise the nature in the city, and in turn empathise with the

organic forms as we might do with people. Within the series, there is both a vision of constraint and hope, that although we see how man has exercised his control over nature, nature can and will always find a way.