From the series: landscapes

The milled birch bark reliefs exhibit the interplay between material and image. Using precise 3D scanning technology, birch bark is digitally captured and converted into a 3D model. The resulting digital structure of the bark surface is then transferred to birch plywood using a computer-controlled milling machine. The subtractive process reveals the different colored layers of the plywood. The greatly enlarged surface structure of its origin - the birch tree - is inscribed in the industrially produced wood panel material. Nothing in the rectangular plywood panels of birch plywood is reminiscent of the tree. ‘Landscapes’ duplicate fragments from the natural world and address claims of dominance of Western civilizations over ‘nature’ as well as the relationship between nature and culture. Definitions of, as well as the distinction between natural and artificial, are critically questioned against the background of human intervention.