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My practice explores the relationship between ecology, perception, and material systems through sculpture and installation. Working with industrial and mechanised materials, I construct environments in which artificial systems transpose ecological behaviours. These works function as synthetic ecologies, constructed conditions in which perception, memory, and embodied response unfold within post-natural environments.

Across the installations, familiar environmental effects appear without their expected causes. Grass moves without wind. Streams flow without water. Storms gather without sky. By separating effect from origin, the work destabilises distinctions between the organic and the constructed, foregrounding perception as the site where nature is assembled, remembered, and felt.

The installations operate as perceptual instruments. Industrial and architectural structures are engineered to behave with apparent fluidity or responsiveness, producing atmospheres that move between the mechanical and the organic. Rigid systems begin to suggest biological logic. Synthetic surfaces appear to breathe, sway, or circulate. Through this instability, the work recalibrates how environmental cues are read within built environments.

The practice asks what forms of sensory ecology might emerge in the absence of unmediated landscapes. As exposure to such environments diminishes, constructed spaces become primary habitats. The work considers how artificial systems might engage nervous-system memory, instinct, and perceptual adaptation by engineering ecological effects as operative conditions rather than representations.

Each project develops through sustained experimentation with material behaviour and fabrication processes. Prototyping is central. Mechanisms are tested, recalibrated, and refined until industrial assemblies exceed their expected roles. Installations often appear austere or mechanical at first encounter, gradually revealing atmospheric or contemplative qualities that support prolonged engagement.

In an era shaped by ecological rupture and technological saturation, the work constructs environments in which the synthetic and the ecological operate as entangled conditions. Meaning emerges through duration, sensory negotiation, and embodied response. Speculative ecologies are encountered as lived conditions within post-natural space.