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Home Invasions

Home Invasions is a speculative narrative about botanical biodiversity. In Home Invasions, I imagine a world in which humans have succumbed completely to “plant blindness,” a British botanical term that refers to the human tendency to ignore plants.

At the heart of my creative process is the staging of temporary installations of invasive plants in rooms where the human residents coexist with plant life, either unaware or only vaguely conscious of the intrusion of vines, branches, berries and leaves. These images are accompanied by documentation of the same plants in their natural environments.

Botanical biodiversity loss threatens food and medicinal security, accelerates disease, and speeds up the extinction of most animal species. By including domestic interiors in the category of “ecosystems,” I hope to make the needle jump the groove: to startle or simply nudge viewers into thinking about their own awareness of the enormous changes now occurring in the earth’s biodiversity. Home Invasions is part of an ongoing long-term body of work on botanical biodiversity.