Nature Preserve Sculpture

Jodi Sharp

2012

8' x 3' 6"
Metal, Paper

The purpose of Nature Preserve Sculpture is to discuss the relationship between urban and natural space. Standing eight feet tall by 3.5 feet wide, Nature Preserve Sculpture invites the viewer to enter into and close oneself off in it. Inside are paper castings taken off of trees in the artist's neighbourhood. The viewer is surrounded by a nature mimicking environment that changes the sound and feeling of the viewer's space. However, the comforting "natural" space cannot be mistook for something manmade, which in the confined space becomes somewhat disconcerting. 

Nature Preserve Sculpture deals with the human desire to try and implement natural space within a city, while still keeping it contained and manicured, therefore making it unnatural.