In a far-flung future, after centuries of seeing plant life only as decorations to be bent to our will, what does the contemporary depiction look like? With mistreatment and mismanagement, who’s to say we will know for sure what a dead or alive plant will look like? Here it is. Choke is a series of images from the confused viewpoint of life's grandeur being removed entirely. The work questions how far humans can move plant life away from livable conditions and what that looks like. Along with this, sitting like a fog in the mind is whether or not the future inhabitants will be able to tell whether THIS MATERIAL is alive, or whether that matters anymore.

My goal was to strip everything down and see what is left. The modern human does a lot of strange things for convenience. What is more convenient than a plant that requires no light, no water, no nutrients, and little to no space? All it requires is our eyes, but do we enjoy it the same?

Human conventions of modern living are not going to remain the same forever. That being said, if this was the current style of houseplants, what would it be like in another two centuries?I ask a lot of questions with this series and most of them are hypothetical. But seeing the way the water has been flowing lately, I’m not sure how far off I could be.

When the allure of plastic plants (which in itself is a baffling monstrosity to me when boiled down) falters, I hypothesize that next, the desire for something that was once living will be in-vogue. Like a bear skin rug laid before a hearth, a cold, dead trunk positioned next to a couch in a room would serve the same message.

“This thing was once living, I conquered it”.