Planted Matter treats the simple act of carrying plants through city streets as a lens for understanding how humans negotiate nature within constructed environments. These images capture fleeting moments where concrete and greenery meet, transforming routine errands into quiet rituals of care. This work rejects sentimentalizing these gestures, instead it simply presents them as deliberate acts of persistence and attention.

The series hinges on the tension between vulnerability and persistence. Plants move through streets that are inhospitable yet ordered, appearing fragile while, at the same time, asserting their resilience. Against the city’s rigid geometry, greenery becomes a quiet counterforce, staking its presence amid glass, steel, and stone. Each image captures a negotiation: the plants’ passage is inseparable from the attentive, deliberate choices of the people who carry them.

Formally, the restrained visual approach mirrors the thematic stakes. Composition, light, and scale emphasize the quiet choreography of these journeys, allowing gestures to read as deliberate and consequential. What emerges is not spectacle but attentive presence. Planted Matter renders the transported plants as active participants in city life—tracing a subtle network of care that reshapes how we perceive the coexistence of the organic and the urban.