Eden
©2009
The central theme of my long-term project, Eden, is the domestication of nature, encompassing both exterior and inner space as an aesthetic concept.
Landscape, in its origin, is a concept rooted in the convergence of industrialization and Renaissance painting. Viewed through this lens, landscape represents an image of an idea: we define what an ideal world should look like and reproduce it photographically.
Consequently, these new images of nature are internalized. Through this interior imagery, we reconstruct the landscapes within which we physically and mentally exist.
Today, spaces of artificial environment, zones of attraction, and splinter development are becoming increasingly familiar. They merge constantly with the remaining rural and suburban fabric, blurring the boundary between the natural and the manufactured.
