An installation piece about the destruction of nature. As you walk into the room you are greeted by large friendly looking trees, they represent nature, as you look to your left you can see plenty of smaller tree stumps.
The city's we create is now the modern forest however it only gives off pollution and toxic waste which is harmful. The natural forests give human kind the oxygen we need to live. so why do we have such little respect to our surrounding environment when it is keeping us alive?
Self destructive mankind.
Have a look in videos to see the animated version of this piece.
I used a ultra violet pen so only under a certain light could you see these thoughts and the writing. This represents people choosing to see the issues and problems around them weather that is global warming or poverty or any issues within this problematic world today.
This particular series of work is about how most of us as a human society take such lack of care about the destruction to our natural surrounds and climate change. These pieces are based on that humans are unable to plan more than thirty years ahead of our selves. There are very few who can. So even if we are aware of the changes we choose to ignore them and hide them away. My human figures are submerged into walls or the floors this represents how we our hiding these problems away and choosing to ignore them. However it is a serious issue that could be dealt with a lot better as one whole human race.
This was a lot of fun carrying down the street you would surprised the different sort of reactions you get carrying a headless man down the street.
I still need to install these pieces in the streets. Keep checking for more pictures coming soon...
This was taken on the 20/11/2009 as you can see the puddle has started to dry up. some of the shrubs have fallen over however there are still many that are left standing. The shrubs ave now been completely emerged into its surrounding area. Some children and their parent was watching me take pictures of the trees. They were admiring them. as they had been up for a few days they must have seen them a few times back and forth from school. “You must have been busy” commented the parent. The child how “did you make them?” the children seem quite interested as if they wanted to create some for themselves. Their parents even said to the children “shall we make some at home and plant them in the garden?” The parent was interested in what this project was about and if they would deteriorate in to the ground. Documentation will continue.
This was taken on the 14/11/2009 four days into the installation piece. This is when the shrubs really started to become part of the nature and was no longer just card. Please note that these posts for this project are not on the days of when the photos were taken the project stated on the 10/11/2009 and is still on going.
At first i felt the shrubs and plants did not fit in with the environment straight away. In its own way that was good as the card plants stood out and people were more aware of them. After a few months once the shapes lost the straight cut end and became soggy I felt they became part of its environment and was no longer a material heavily used by the industrial world it was back in its original environment. These images can be seen above.
This is my first installation piece outside. To work out in the natural environment is an influence that has come from graffiti artists. They take what materials they have and apply them to the streets weather its spray, paste or installations the work interacts with its environment. For this piece to work i had to create plenty of tree shrubs made of card. I then went out in the morning to plant them. 
