Life in the Cracks I

Life in the Cracks I is an exploration of relationships within familiar territories seeking to lay bare and make visible that which is often ignored, overlooked or marginalized.

The presence of nature is often highly curated and reconstructed to fit neatly into a rigid and structured system in an urban setting. Wild and unrelenting, nature occupies and resists. It takes hold, renegotiating ownership – taking back the forgotten cracks, crevices, fissures and fractures – of planned space.

Overlooked and dismissed, our perception is shaped by privilege. “Weeds” are a nuisance – an object to be eradicated as they do not fit our construct of aesthetically pleasing and purposeful. We have
collectively forgotten the wisdom and agency of the plant world.

Life in the Cracks I seeks to shift the narrative by creating a mechanism to negotiate and navigate
resistance in the programmed world.