Hortus

Hortus and Nursery are two large drawings which address the complexity of a nature/culture binary. A rather stark symbolic contrast of then (old gnarled trees, ancient walls) with now (poly tunnel, horticultural science, genetics) play with the Victorian convention of addressing the fate of civilization through stark contrasts (see Pugin for Gothic versus Classicist, see "Right and Wrong Path of Pilgrimage" religious illustrations). The "contrast" aspect is deliberately playing homage to the dialectics of 19th C thinking.