This new body of work is centred around the woods where I walk my dogs and the fascinating things I see. After reading around James Lovelocks Gaia theory and then combining this with the idea of synthetic biology I came up with these strange worlds within worlds which are brightly coloured and unreal. I think about all the organisms we cannot see which are all around us, in the soil under our feet, in the seas and oceans and even small puddles and I thought how this might look if magnified. The world needs nature, yet it is still an enigma to humans who still cannot fathom certain elements.

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