SBS95

The project explores the concept of Shifting Baseline Syndrome – the phenomenon of an adjustment of what is perceived as “normal” or “natural” with regards to Nature. Each new generation accepts their current environmental conditions as a new baseline. The profound changes and losses that have occurred over time become distant memories, fading rapidly from consciousness, like a dream.

The images in this series were taken in Wales' Eryri National Park - in habitats ranging from the last remnants of the temperate rainforest, the desolate peat bogs, the mono-crop timber forests and in sheep grazing fields. The UK is one of the most Nature deplete countries on the planet, having lost over half of its biodiversity.

By constructing adapted representations of "Nature" using mycelium and other elements, the images present complex and layered visual possibilities of an imagined reality that evokes reflection on the losses that have past, and the future losses that will occur with the next baseline shift.