My creations employ three elements which combine an environmental whole – Atmospherics, Nature and Response. 'Atmospherics' refers to installations themselves, which engender an ambience within the viewer’s perception; Nature is the surrounding environment that supports and informs the artwork; and the Response of the audience occurs within this dual space. My intention for the Viewer is for a highly charged, nostalgic awareness of things long gone, occurring within (and in interaction with) the natural, pre-urban landscape installed before an urban background. atmospherics presented by the installation. The most apparent aspect of this would be the My aim is not to transport viewers away from their everyday existence. Rather, I hope to find them now more imaginatively alert to the wider cultural landscape of their own personal and cultural history -- which, as the past, is literally absent to us but which follows us unconsciously even in our most mundane tasks. Of course, these sorts of remembrances do not convey the actual story of what is now literally absent, but they do nonetheless play an essential role in identity and culture formation.