SECOND NATURE

Second Nature explores the shifting boundary between the natural and the manufactured through photographic gardens, constructed still lifes, and curious specimens. Blending real and artificial materials, the work invites viewers to look closely and consider how beauty, perception, and imitation shape what we trust as authentic.

In seventeenth-century Dutch vanitas paintings, flowers bloom and fade, fruit ripens and rots - reminders of time, mortality, and the fragility of material excess.

Here, those traditions are interrupted. Plastic flowers do not wilt. Nature is branded, preserved, and manufactured for consumption. Contemporary memento mori emerge, reflecting a world where beauty remains, but decay has been removed.