Nature Nurtured in the Urban
Age
I
realized that sometimes unintentionally I had taken a series of photographs
that examined nature versus the manmade. Whether that is trash or construction
zones battling it out between neatly planted lines of almost man-made flowers,
the struggle between the real planet and our made planet was there all around
me. For my final collection of images I decided to juxtapose nature and those man
made idiosyncrasies.
It
is really eye opening once you examine that strangeness of our lives. We look
as plants that grow on their own, fighting for life in sidewalk cracks and call
them weeds. At the same time flowers are planted intentionally around our urban
landscapes to make us “appreciate nature.” In all reality we appreciate it by
covering it with cement and concrete and throwing our refuse all over it
without a second thought.
We
continue to create and build and construct modern technologies from roadways to
computers and machines and it’s confusing where earth’s real place is in our
plans.
Sometimes it’s good to just lie in the
grass and be quiet, while we still have the chance.
Enjoy,
Akasha
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