Having grown up with nature as a self-evident factor that was always present in my life, I find it strange to notice that the meaning of the concept of nature is changing.
In our time, the most unthinkable problems can be tackled with technology and science. But because we have these possibilities, we use it to arrange our environment to our own taste. This of course also applies to nature. The nature that we control and create no longer needs earth to survive, just us. And the nature that’s out there, that does need soil to survive, is limited by us because we keep on restricting the space it needs to grow.
I adopt the modern idea that everything is manufacturable. So I create my own scientific experiments. In these experiments I emphasize on the aspects of nature that we seemingly all want to get rid of: the imperfections. I take control of specific pieces of nature and determine what happens to it. Self-invented scientific experiments merge with the actual image of the treatment of nature under artificial conditions. This might make it hard to distinguish between what is being investigated in a laboratory and what is being done in my living room.
An investigation into our current view of nature: can you still speak of nature if there is so much human influence?