Planted Matter
Metropolitan life through everyday acts of botanical transportation and care.
Planted Matter follows people moving plants through streets, transit systems and other built environments. Balance, protection and awkward scale turn routine transport into a quiet choreography.
The plants appear vulnerable against concrete, glass and traffic, but they are not passive decoration. Their passage depends on human attention while also interrupting the city’s hard geometry with another form of life.
The series avoids sentimentalizing these encounters. It asks what becomes visible when urban nature is understood as a relationship maintained through effort, and how everyday acts of carrying allow nonhuman life to participate in the city rather than merely soften its appearance.
