How Does Your Garden Grow? No 1

This work is a response to our uneasy relationship with nature—how we shape it, exploit it, attempt to replicate it, and often lose touch with its true essence. How Does Your Garden Grow? No 1 looks like a prolific wild flower meadow at first glance, but a closer look reveals forms that are strangely synthetic: seed pods that don’t quite belong, flowers that seem digitally stitched together, leaves that could be printed or grown in a lab.

Inspired by my ongoing exploration of the intersection between the natural world and emerging technologies, this piece imagines a future where nature is curated, engineered, or even entirely artificial. It speaks to the growing influence of human intervention on ecosystems, and questions what we’re nurturing—wildness or control?

There’s beauty here, but it’s uneasy. Like much of my work, it lives in the space between wonder and warning. I want viewers to sit with that tension, to reflect on how we interact with the world around us and what’s at stake when we treat nature as a resource instead of a relationship.