Imitation of Nature is a series of collage-based drawings in color pencil. The collages are made from back issues of nature magazines. Minimalist in their composition, they playfully denaturalize the difference between “Nature” and human culture that conditions the production of the mediated images of the birds, plantlife, and man-made objects that populate them. Each drawing attempts to “represent” the collage faithfully, resulting in a recursive plunge into one of Western art’s oldest aesthetic conundrums: Which came first? The chicken or the image of the chicken? However familiar or “natural” the images might seem, there is nevertheless something off, weird, or uncanny in each of them, to the point that one becomes unsure of what world is being represented after all. Yet with their disciplined attention to detail, and the vibrant colors in which they are rendered, these drawings make palpable a genuine admiration the “natural,” or for a natural world that humans, rightly or wrongly, regard as distinct enough from themselves to warrant objectification in and as art.