One with Nature and Natural Selection

One with Nature began from the idea of drawing a choreography with life-size images of bodies, protected by masks and carrying the natural/artificial forms that run through my work. Representations of warlike forms were already present, in a softened way, in earlier works, through the interpretation of camouflage fabric and the exploration of hybrid forms between firearm and plant. The climate of war in New York, where I was living between 2003 and 2005, and its developments were a daily presence across all media. This context lays the ground for projects such as the One with Nature series, where images alluding to a conflict at once present and distant, filtered through the news media, mix with utilitarian versions of survival in an artificial natural world.

The works on paper in Natural Selection continue a line of research into the relationship between the urban and nature. The title refers to Darwin's work, which at the time was being challenged in the United States by a conservative wave calling for creationism to be taught in schools and for Darwin's theory of evolution to be dropped. The sculptural animals are based on images of constructions used as decoys by hunters: collapsible, portable representations of animals used to lure game.