Human Nature
Humanity has placed itself in the position to destroy its own home and unless reversed, our actions and lifestyles will eventually make Earth uninhabitable. These effects are already evident in the litter and pollution that we see every day. We find litter even in the most pristine natural environments. This body of work focuses on this litter and pollution. I traveled to city and state parks, nature reserves and other natural environments to take landscape photographs. Along the way I collected the litter I found, photographed and printed the litter onto a transparent film. I then adhered these to printed black-and-white landscape photographs. My intent is that the juxtaposition of the images of collaged trash and images of real trash in the landscape will allow the viewer to think about how waste impacts the natural world.