greenhouse series

For many centuries greenhouses, in one form or another, have served a singular purpose: to create and control an environment that favored the propagation of selected vegetation for the purpose of study, food, entertainment or preservation.

But these structures are also the unwitting examples of the human desire to conquer and order the natural world.

This ongoing series begins with the concept of greenhouse (both function and structure) as a visual synonym for constructed spaces. It then explores how, perhaps unintentionally, such spaces within the urban environment provide both favorable and unfavorable conditions for life. Embedded in these works is the realization that these urban infrastructural spaces can serve as either points of conflict or moments of beauty between living and constructed forms.