While we were hiking last weekend, Mr. F & I spotted something we’d never quite seen before.  We’re familiar with nurse logs, but noticed several trees whose roots had grown over and around a fallen redwood.  In her Viral Series, Toronto artist Jess Riva Cooper explores ideas of environmental impact and change as flora overtakes the human face.

It has always amazed and intrigued me the way we build things up, yet nature always finds a way to inhabit and continue on its own journey.  From the spider taking up residence in the smallest corner of the bathroom, to abandoned buildings through which vines and trees have grown, try as we might to prevent it, nature takes what is needed.  How much more would we live in harmony if we simply left things alone or provided nature a place to thrive among us?  Something to ponder over your weekend, dear Artsies.

If you’d like to see more work by Jess Riva Cooper, be sure to check out her website.

All images via the artist’s website.  Artist found via Colossal.