The natural environment, our industrial and technological infrastructure, and my place within them, are the focus of my work as a visual artist.
Timescapes, my most recent body of work, uses photography and video to document the transformation of various landscapes over long spans of time.
Questions about the long-term global impact that industrialized civilization has on the environment are framed within the context of my own rural surroundings in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
This relationship with nature is investigated by examining long term natural effects on industrial artifacts within the landscape, such as a discarded computer monitor or sewer drainage pipe.
I invite the viewer to contemplate their own relationship with nature as a formal meditation while also implying complicity in its destruction and ultimate responsibility for conserving natural resources and preserving what’s left of our natural environment.
— Dave Hebb