HUMAN NATURE

This series began as an exploration of co-creation with generative AI, a way to bring the climate crisis into focus without turning it into spectacle.

The title carries a double meaning: human nature as our shared psychology, and human nature as the natural world we’ve altered. Climate change resists visualization because it operates at a scale too vast and too slow to feel. These images work at a smaller register instead.

A poppy flower boldly emerges from a barren rock. A couch, wrapped in plastic, floats in a melting ocean. A solitary chair stands on the last remaining patch of lush land in a sea of water. Each image is constructed, but rooted in something real — greenhouse gas emissions, air and plastic pollution, the quiet erosion of what we depend on.

Climate change is so often shown as tragedy that it risks becoming numbing rather than moving. I wanted these images to sit closer to observation than alarm, a way of making the crisis less abstract, and a little easier to feel.

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