In this series of digital simulations, natural objects are carefully wrapped in plastic, creating patterns of folds, seams, and shrink-wrapped shapes that appear to protect and preserve the inherent beauty of nature. The images offer a curious perspective on packaging as a means of shielding what is under threat - while pointing to a deeper contradiction at the heart of the gesture.
In a world where human activity is causing irreparable damage to the environment, the impulse to protect the natural world has never felt more urgent. Yet plastic is itself one of the most pervasive pollutants of the very nature it appears to safeguard here - choking oceans, fragmenting into microplastics, lingering in ecosystems for centuries. The protector and the threat become one and the same.
The intricate folds and textures draw attention to the fragility of nature, but the wrapping itself is part of what makes nature fragile in the first place. The result is an uneasy beauty: a preservation that is also a suffocation, a care that is also a harm.
