My work approaches what it means to be a “nature-lover” in the 21st century. Through material, object, and image based propositions, I am searching for a confluence of two phenomena: our explicit ecological actuality, and our rigid schemas of “nature”. Our conceptions of what, where, how, why, and when nature is—and is not— creates the substantial perceptual labyrinth in which I play. What are these exceptional mires of conditional eco-limerence in which the natural can be found here but not there? How did we manage to cultivate an ethos in which to love is also to destroy?