Rachael Champion

Raze Bloom is a commentary on our continued engagement with nature within our built up environment. Raze Bloom becomes a synthetic ecosystem requiring its own life support systems to sustain it within the gallery space. This pieces a comment on the ever shifting relationship between technology and nature, constantly relying on and aiding one another. Champion creates this unique ecosystem where nature and technology aid each other in a very futuristic looking harmony. The work does however focus on all the materials we are constantly extracting, transforming and consuming and how this will effect our landscapes and ecosystems. The visually harmonious artwork actually displays a world gone wrong type situation, a consequence of our constant strain and advancing of the natural environment.

I love the bringing outside into the gallery space rather than the other way round and also the piece giving art further meaning within the scientific community. I don't like how she makes such a divide between the natural and the artificial, although they're aiding each other, they couldn't be further apart. They aid each other equally, which I do like as its not the common simulation of technology taking over, but instead displays the shared environment. I don't want to include technology within my art because its the furthest development from nature, its been through so many processes and components. Although still derived from the natural, technology is the harshest difference you could have. I still do however want my sculptures to look futuristic and sleek while still commenting on the present environment.While Raze Bloom is more of a visual mirage to conceal more negative ideas, my art will display more or a positive point of view about us in nature, one in the same.

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^^ references from https://rachaelchampion.com/raze-bloom