This series is in a sense to propose the question to the viewer about what is the role of Nature in contemporary society. Many people that visit Natural History Museums, Bass Pro Shop, or Cabela's see installations of not only nature, but man's dominance and distance from Nature. Taxidermy animals are killed in order to be re-contextualized in completely false "habitats". American culture finds that when indoors we are separate from nature and in order to "get back to Nature" one must leave the comforts of the modern world to seek trees and wilderness. Humans and anything they have produced are in fact as natural to the earth as anything on the planet. I personally believe it is this separation which has caused us to not only pollute the earth and take up all the resources in a parasitic manner, but also to think that we must fix something that is broken and unnatural with what we are doing instead of taking upon the responsibility of finding a balance as a natural system. These photo-montage / collages represent a fleeting and unsuccessful attempt at revitalizing these taxidermy animals back into a more natural environment. I say unsuccessful because no matter my attempts the animals are not back to being alive and thrives which reflects the solution is not as simple as A + B = C. To make the series seem cohesive, I took 1 photo of an animal with 1 photo of the environment. To give the series rhythm and to avoid monotony, some of the collages range from comical to solemn as well as the degree of photoshop is obvious in some and more subtle in others. The color pallet was chosen to be less saturated to reflect the dead quality of the animals in their taxidermy state.