The Museum of Nature
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I recently came across the great work of Finnish photographer Ilkka Halso. His photographic series the ‘Museum of Nature’ wonderfully challenges the natural environment from its current state into a future world where it is something we have to visit to experience. The collection of compelling images pictures a series of man-made structures that enclose nature, protecting it from pollution. Using images of nature and 3D digital manipulation, this photographic collection captures a future vision of nature as a museum display. Challenging the audience’s interaction with the endangered artifact of the natural environment, Halso manages to truly visualize a future we so desperately do not want to see a reality.
This is a thoroughly engaging project, and although I appreciate the suggestion that these images would be appropriate as illustrations to a form of eco-catastrophic novel. I feel personally
they could stand-alone in any city or urban environment to remind us how precious our natural environment is truly becoming.
