Nature-It's What's for Dinner

Here is the small image.

Here is the full-sized image. Due to the detail-oriented aspect of this piece I thought it might be helpful.
I think the distinction that we, as humans using language, make between "nature" and "the unnatural" is pretty funny in itself. For better or for worse, "nature" is often associated with plant life and "mother Earth" which is defined as the opposite of human civilization and technology. This line we draw between the entirety of the universe (which I believe to be a better word to sum up "nature") and the existence/creations of humanity is nothing more than imaginary. Everything from our bodies to the trees outside to the pipes that run through the buildings we live and work in are affected by the same physical and chemical processes in the same way.
So, to convey this I wanted to combine natural and unnatural together, broadening the grey area between the two. I collected pictures I have taken and highlighted certain objects that have been affected by weathering and rust. Compositionally, it started with a structured grid that I broke down. I imagined that the squares drawn in the space were being affected by the law of gravity. The squares represent the categorization and organization we try to force onto reality, so it is "natural" that the objects trying to be contained break out of these confines and interact and bleed into each other. I intentionally blurred the line between these two by comparinh their similar colors, textures and shapes to make one cohesive image.