Explain how Simryn Gill explores the relationship between the

natural world and culture in her artworks.

Simryn Gill often combines human and nature together to explore the
relationship between them. Gill mainly uses found objects in order to
amuse the viewer and aggravate thought. Her works are often
humorous and they appeal to the viewers imaginations. Simryn Gill
considers how the audience experiences a sense of place and how
personal and cultural histories tell our present. Gills works also
suggests how the culture can become naturalised as an almost invisible
part of our physical environment.

As the purpose of the buildings were to emphasize the power of culture
over nature symbolize a idea where culture is stated as superior over
nature, which justifies the search for colonization and establishment.
Nature is the only actor in each photograph, and it will incorporate
cultural creations such as books or buildings back to their origins in a
slow process. The photography makes the text blends into natural
surroundings and in a similar way to Standing Still, culture is no longer
superior over nature (Chua 13). As the intentions of the buildings were
to assert the superiority of culture over nature, the works used
in Forest: Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, Daniel Defoes,
Robinson Crusoe, and Joseph Conrads, Heart of Darkness, embody
a philosophy where culture is asserted as superior over nature, which
justifies the quest for imperialism and colonization.

The slowness embodied in her work forces the usual quick passer-by at
a museum to slow down. This slowness metaphorically points out the
quickness of globalization by showing the nature taking over a pace, the
quickness to classify race, which is disabled, and the quickness of
someone to classify art as something for the elite.