“The Nature of Things” explores the reaction to man’s continued influence and perceived dominance over the natural world. In a time when humans were forced to re-examine and contemplate their significance over their actions, nature both offered a respite and showcased its true dominance over human kind. “Our relationship to the natural world should perhaps be the most important relationship we have,” Halm says. “Inactivity in the face of climate change, mass extinctions, global pandemics and food and water shortages must all be taken very seriously in this time and age. If not for our own benefit, then for that of future generations.”

Participants: Theodora Elizer, Becca Guzzo, Sohee Kim(Soah Woo), Emily Klass, Sarah Martin-Nuss Eugenia So, Zhao Zhang