Naturalized
Naturalized is an abstract field guide that brings together images of weeds with academic quotes about our natureculture ecosystem. This project invites an exploration of the complex relationships between humans and the natural world, questioning binary distinctions like native versus invasive and unpacking the colonial histories embedded in these categories. Naturalized asks how we might live joyfully within the complexity and messiness of today’s ecosystems.
The field guide format can be restrictive and prescriptive, setting rigid terms for how we classify and understand the world, or expansive and inviting, opening a space for inquiry, dialogue, and the expansion of what we consider "natural." Naturalized engages with these tensions between authority and openness, categorization and interpretation, to create a space where both knowledge and curiosity can coexist.
Naturalized is available in an edition of 50, available to purchase through Etsy.
Naturalized is an abstract field guide that brings together images of weeds with academic quotes about our natureculture ecosystem. This project invites an exploration of the complex relationships between humans and the natural world, questioning binary distinctions like native versus invasive and unpacking the colonial histories embedded in these categories. Naturalized asks how we might live joyfully within the complexity and messiness of today’s ecosystems.
The field guide format can be restrictive and prescriptive, setting rigid terms for how we classify and understand the world, or expansive and inviting, opening a space for inquiry, dialogue, and the expansion of what we consider "natural." Naturalized engages with these tensions between authority and openness, categorization and interpretation, to create a space where both knowledge and curiosity can coexist.
Naturalized is available in an edition of 50, available to purchase through Etsy.