Attempted Meanings
2011-2012
​Selected works exhibited at Landmark Arts, 2014

This series responds to, and also preserves, the scientific and technological contexts within which it is created. These photos are a study of the complex relationships between mankind and the natural world. Through discovering, identifying/naming, understanding, and preserving the flora and fauna of this planet, humans have gained (possibly a false sense of) control over it. What started as curiosity has turned into a strange possession through scientific collections, zoos, botanical gardens, and personal collections, all as an attempt to define and determine a greater meaning at what this world holds for us as humans.
I often consider the photographs of this series as preliminary sketches for the following series The Memory of Science.