Predominantly the work records nature through the lens of urban life, often through the personal viewpoint of the home. The work takes inspiration from activism and Eco Art, with the viewpoint that art can be strategised to create positive change. Artists that have influenced her work such as  Natalie Jeremijenko and Jason DeCaires Taylor use their platforms to create art that is beneficial to the natural environment, This being the end goal within Roses work. The responsibility of change and sustainability being taken inwards into her own practise, much like Natalie Jeremijenko’s standpoint on the power art can hold:

“ A lot of my work concerns crisis of agency- what can we do?” -Natalie Jeremijenko.

 

 Rose seeks to create a sustainable practice that aligns itself with  her interest in environmentalism  and ultimately looks to invite viewers to reconnect themselves with what has been forgotten or unrealised. Through documentation there’s an exploration of the fluidity and instability of nature seen through the fixed, container of the urban living environment. 

The work looks to share experience through the exploration of space and immediate/surrounding nature. By doing so Rose hopes to start a discourse surrounding the positive changes that can be made to create a better symbiotic relationship for man and the natural world.

 

“Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things… Communication is the process of creating participation, of making common what had been isolated and singular… the conveyance of meaning gives body and definiteness to the experience of the one who utters as well as to that of those who listen.” -John Dewey.

 

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This piece is an exploration into the fluidity of nature through the lens of a stable and unchanging space, being my flat. The image is a combination of hundreds of images taken from the same position in my flat, out my window, looking out onto nature, just hours apart. Reconnecting with nature through the container in which i use to base my life in temporarily.  here it remains steady and still, a vessel which I have used to frame the outside world. I became interested in the natural environment, connecting with it, documenting it and interacting with it. In particular i am interested in immediate and accessible nature. This piece in particular documents Nature through the lens of the urban and residential life. I made a conscious decision to reconnect and recognise the nature that surrounds me. The trees, plants, shrubs and flowers are seemingly still at first glance but through the constant documentation are revealed as flowing, changing and moving. Through lockdown I found myself feeling stuck, on the inside looking out, and nature has been a big  escape for me, often being the only time/reason I leave my flat. This image is another representation of that longing gaze. Framing an Eden, a hopeful escape.