Altered Nature is a visual and sensory exploration that invites reflection on the complex relationship between humans and the natural environment. Through an interactive zine printed using risograph techniques, it explores the duality between beauty and decay, presenting an infinite cycle of contrasts. The use of light filters allows the viewer to uncover hidden images, symbolising the fragile boundary between life and death in nature, the rhythms of change, ecology, and the delicate beauty of flora. The combination of textures, shapes, and colours creates a poetic and creative narrative that aims to raise awareness of our intimate connection with the natural world.
The work highlights nature’s duality, which can express both stability and purity as well as ferocity and brutality, illustrating the complex relationship between humans and their environment—a relationship that oscillates between romantic devotion and attempts at domination.
The creative process begins with a microscopic investigation of plants, where technology becomes an extension of the human eye, allowing an unusual closeness to the organic. At 200x magnification, the smallest details take on a monumental dimension, and textures transform into abstract landscapes of a rediscovered nature. This visual archive, translated into risograph printing, produces a print with vibrant nuances and a distinct materiality, where the imperfections of the method impart character to the work. The fusion of science, art, and technical experimentation gives rise to a piece in which the process is as essential as the outcome: a fragmented cartography of the natural world, a play of revelation and concealment that invites us to rethink our connection with the environment.
Limited edition zine, individually numbered and hand-signed.