The Perfect Murder of Nature

An Elegant Irony and the Disappearance of the Real

This work formally 'steals' the classic hanging poetry of Ingo Maurer. However, this is not an homage, but a
premeditated act of 'formal appropriation'. Ingo Maurer's Zettel'z invites the human hand to inscribe warmth, an
aggregation of humanistic radiance. I, conversely, conscript this form and enlist technology to execute a translation, accomplishing the systematic murder of the natural entity itself.

Texture rubbings taken from tree bark.

Translating natural textures into CNC carvings

Creating plaster molds from the carved
foam panels to shape paper (material)