AP SHOW @ HHS.

I explored the process at which buildings are naturally destroyed and incorporated into nature. While both biotic and abiotic processes happen at the same time, they are more clearly seen when they work at contrasting rates. Biotic phenomena and the natural reclamation of buildings happen quickly on the outsides of buildings while abiotic phenomena are best seen on the innards of buildings. While all of nature battles for nutrients, sunlight, land, and water, abandoned buildings make for one of the most outlandish of battlegrounds. The extremes of nature don't contain the same perverse factors that most abandoned buildings do, like carcinogenic chemicals. These extra obstacles make the crusade for survival that happens within abandoned buildings all the more captivating. Once the buildings are taken over, the plants that have conquered them revives the life they have lost over their years of decay. I wanted to show how these buildings are art rather than artifacts that deface their surroundings, especially when they become overgrown and alive. To do this I showed how the buildings are defiled physically from the inside out then naturally reclaimed outside in.