sensitive dependence

sensitive dependence is a series of images that explore our relationship with the natural world as though through the eyes of a child. It is a body of work that looks at the fragility of the world around us, a child's affinity with nature and concerns I have with environmental damage and the legacy we are leaving our children.

sensitive dependence refers to chaos theory and the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain reaction culminating in large scale alterations of events. 

The images relate to the idea of cause and effect and the transience of existence - they are beautiful, compelling and ephemeral. They suggest we hold this fragile world in our hands.