RACHEL STEIN

Forces of Nature explores the transitory and mundane nature of everyday objects to create an anti-monumental quality, giving less empowerment to the material and more power to the forces of nature that move it. By place multi-colored plastic objects into a natural setting, I aim to create imagery that invites the viewer to analyze their personal association to the objects presented and to question its placement in the landscape - and by extension, their own personal impact on the environment. These ideas were realized in performance based videos that are presented as a large scale video installation.