Engineered Growth
THE TENSION OF CONTROL AND CHAOS
Dissecting the complexities of nature under technological intervention-hardened, instrumentalized, yet never devoid of untamable vitality. A study of ecology's paradox in the technological age, where fragility meets resilience and domestication contends with defiance.
Through The Garden, a sculptural series of mechanized flora, Justin Cloud navigates the threshold between utopian aspiration and dystopian inevitability in a world governed by technology.
His work explores the collision of nature and industry, imagining a speculative future where organic forms are reconstructed through mechanical intervention.
Using steel fabrication and automotive flocking, he distorts familiar flora and fauna into hybridized structures that blur the line between the natural and the artificial. This series examines the paradox of technological evolution-its potential to both cultivate and disrupt-challenging viewers to reconsider humanity's imprint on the environment.
Expanding China, a series of micro-landscape sculptures from Patrick Bergsma, embodies raw, untamed vitality. Bonsai trees bursting through shattered ceramic vases reflect nature's resilience against humanity's fragile attempts at control.
Blending Eastern traditions- Chinese bonsai, Japanese ikebana, and Penjing landscapes-with Dutch Delft Blue pottery, inspired by Chinese porcelain, the work dissolves aesthetic boundaries.
Patrick Bergsma's sculptures evoke a sense of tension between fragility and persistence, inviting contemplation on nature's quiet yet unyielding force beyond human intervention.
CREDITS
Photo 1, 2, 3
The Garden
Justin Cloud
Photo 4, 5, 6
Expansing China Serie
Patrick Bergsma
CONTENT CREATIVE: EST8 MAG