A Singular Horizon I & II

On the relationship between nature and human-made environments. 2 C-type prints.

A Singular Horizon translates a small garden plot, encased by a concrete courtyard, into digital reconstructions rendered as prints. Using photogrammetry, the work turns the garden’s material and spatial conditions into a study of distortion, rupture, and the friction between organic growth and rigid architectural order.

At first glance the prints read as coherent, even complete. On closer inspection they fracture. Breaks, repetitions, ghosts, and aberrations emerge where the photogrammetric model strains to form a seamless world from incomplete and complex data. The concrete perimeter becomes the reconstruction’s dominant anchor, forcing its straight edges and hard geometries onto the garden’s irregular forms. This imposition stages a clear tension between a built logic of control and the garden’s unruly complexity.

Captured at sunset, the source images carry elongated shadows that become embedded in the model and fixed in the final renders. These shadows mark time while also suspending it, showing how constructed environments mediate what vegetation can be, and how “nature” gets framed, contained, and re-authored through systems that claim to describe it.