Gemma Mckenzie-Booth

In the past year I have spent a lot of time walking, running and cycling along the Cooks River. Taking the same path nearly every day, I began to notice a feature of my surroundings that I had previously overlooked- my experience of this natural environment was, in fact, completely man-made. I would run in synthetic shoes on concrete paths or mowed grass beside a concrete-walled river. Artificial features were easily overlooked amongst the prevailing native elements; trees, grasses, shrubs, birds, insects, the sun and wind. Natural Artificial Seedpods considers the complex relationship between humans and the Cooks River through our efforts to both minimise the impact of nature upon us and repair our impact upon nature. Seed pods and cones collected along the Cooks River have been imprinted in clay, the resulting negative space is translated by hand into 3D modelling software, then printed in PLA.