Suspended Disbelief emerged out of my growing concern with climate change and the destructive effects of industrial waste and agribusiness on the environment. Newspapers show us a series of endless images of natural catastrophes where we witness how barren and unstable the earth has become. I wanted to imagine a way in which plant life renews itself and restores what human denial and arrogance has erased. 

Suppose that two different hedges or trees combine into forms that could resist the threats to their natural environment. By adaptation they find ways to join together through their roots and create a new species, and at times appear as a reflection of themselves. While they might be dependent on the soil, they could also absorb nutrients and moisture from the atmosphere, floating through space, occasionally drifting past the windows of our homes.  

At first glance we might think that there is something familiar about this vegetation, but each plant would actually be a paradox, one which can only exist in our dreams of them. These reinvented forms, both familiar and extraordinary, would demand a suspension of disbelief that could give us hope for the future.