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This work explores the idea that nature has become as much a part of the constructed environment of the city as the buildings within and around which it is contained. 

The city is fast becoming the ‘natural’ environment for the majority of people. Here all basic needs can be met in a clean and convenient manner. Dirt and chaos are removed from any contact with what might be considered the natural world. From this distorted perspective it is difficult to react with any sense of urgency when called to arms against such issues as climate change. 

Concentrating on imagery taken from my own daily experiences, representations of nature found around the home are given a synthetic treatment with glossy surfaces and saturated colours emphasizing their unnatural status. 

Set amid the muted tones of the panorama of urban construction spreading into the horizon nature is placed as a fragment, something tiny and precious in need of protection. On closer inspection though it does not look like real nature at all but an idealised version. This questions what we are more concerned with saving, our way of life or our natural resources. 

The sky is an ever changing backdrop to the city, it is one area where nature can still be experienced as an enduring and irresistible power. 

This staged landscape signifies the loss of the natural world here literally reduced to a sliver, glimpsed as something removed and unattainable but still ambiguously desirable.