"Recent advances in technology facilitated the development of numerous synthetic materials which are progressively penetrating the natural environment, as well as the human body, from the outside and internally. These supplementary tools and materials are being enthusiastically absorbed into our daily lives, and into the very fabric of our culture, to the extent that they are becoming transparent, and their presence is experienced as conventional.
Such perpetual manipulation of organic matter results in a world of technologically transformed nature, where the dividing lines between well established dichotomies of nature vs. culture and technology vs. organism, are becoming increasingly obscured.
Modifications of the human body and of the physical environment, through means of technology, are subjects that I have been intensely exploring for several years. I have combined the two concepts in my recent work in the form of large-scale photographic landscapes.
Seduced by their visually intriguing presence and conceptual significance, I had begun photographing artificially-reconstructed, natural environments. I focused on specific places reshaped by the human hand; places comprising of elements such as meticulously sculpted hedges, developing landscapes covered with patches of sod and vegetation blankets, and eerie, human-like figures of burlap-wrapped trees. All of which have become noticeable features of the contemporary suburban landscape.
I consider my approach to be part documentary, part fictional. All elements used are derived from existing places. Subsequently, fragments of these existing, already altered environments are further digitally dissected and stitched together into new artificial constructions. The resulting compositions become palimpsests, comprising dozens of interwoven layers of synthetic and organic elements.
I have chosen this technique for the metaphorical potential it carries as symbolic representation of the human condition. Depicted struggle between the synthetic and the organic elements within the environments, are intended as reflection of the tensions between the intrinsically technological human nature and our biological bodies."
