Our built environment has become our natural world. It is natural because it is the way we have come to interact with life. In my work, metal, glass, and plastic is molded into a unique form and composition, to capture a moment when the visual experience is heightened by familiarity and a sense of preservation, yet contradicted by the inevitability of decay. Mechanical objects are staged and reworked on the picture plane so that original qualities of refracted light, contoured shadow and complimented colour come together to insist that perception has been altered by civilization’s constructed realities. The clean and prescripted viewpoint prevalent in the careful staging and handling is a reflection of the systematic order that civilization seeks to conjure and hold; a governing framework that guides human activity. We have created a new natural order, and our experiences are effected by these objects' histories.