Thinking about the ways in which humans intervene in nature leads to a lot of, "What if?" questions. For example, let's look at what 's happened to a variety of fruits, vegetables, chickens and other foods as a result of human intervention. It seems that much of the flavour has been leached out of many foods. Certainly, we can be sure that tastelessness isn't a quality that anyone wanted but it looks like that's what has occurred. It is an unintended byproduct of intervention in the natural world. So what if, as a result of the stepped up pace of genetic meddling in the natural wold, all the leaked out of nature? – adding a new dimension to dystopian scenarios envisioned by artists and others.

In summary, research into biotechnology and the use of compute applications led to a dystopian scenario rather than an utopian vision-a body of work centered on the question of, "What if all the color leaked out of nature?", leaving it colorless and black. Could this really happen? Probably not, but the work is intended to call attention to the experience of a natural world that is being indelibly altered by many different kinds of human intervention, especially the genetic modification of plants and animals. The boundaries between nature and culture become blurred as we remake nature from the inside out and the tempo of intervention accelerates.

These pieces have been developed using computer programs, which enable the artist to manipulate and re-contextualize images from nature. The original images of seedpods, fungus, flowerheads, were transformed and then made in black and colorless materials such as casting resin, vinyl, and fiberglass. Although the works begin with forms from nature, because of computer manipulation of the original images and the use of highly processed materials, these become strange hybrids, artificial forms which retain vestiges of their origin in nature.