Composition/Recomposition is an installation of wallpaper that is inhabited by a colony of weaver ants. The piece looks at our relationship to the natural world, and our vain attempts to impose order on it. We set ourselves apart from the chaos of nature, but at the same time cannot escape it.

For me, ants are the perfect union of beauty, disorder, and organization. Ants are not generally considered to be beautiful, yet weaver ants in particular create lacey, intricate chains and towers with their bodies to create their nests. While superficially, they could not seem more different from us, they actually create highly organized societies for themselves, in many ways much like ours. I love the interplay between our visceral reactions to ants – the sense of chaos and disorder that they impose on our homes and interior spaces – and the highly organized societies that they actually construct for themselves.