Artificial Wasteland

Artificial Wasteland uses the artificial reproduction of grass as a medium to present new aesthetic ideals about nature.
In spite of being barren and costly to maintain, ‘perfect’ lawns of short grass are often used as visual representations for an idyllic state of natural prosperity. These surfaces comfort us, for they visually portray a nature as something that is always and only green, eternally growing, ordered and homogeneous; something that humans can rationally define and thus believe to control.
In order to challenge these notions that lawns help perpetuate, as well as the ethic and cultural principles hidden behind them, Artificial Wasteland reimagines the artificial reproduction of grass. Sights of the lawn currently deemed as ‘ugly’ are carefully reproduced in 100% plastic in order present them as equally desirable ideals.