Second Nature- Ethan Platt at Gallery 1888

Second Nature advances Ethan Platt’s exploration of contemporary figuration through a new series of work that confronts notions of the ‘natural’ within urban and digital contexts. These paintings reference floral systems through colour, composition and mood to compose the synthetic figure in a flux state. In this state, digital aesthetics echo botanical life, and the artificial is framed by the natural. Through this dialogue, Second Nature asks what is fabricated, what is organic and what becomes our second nature.