Tanja Deman’s art is inspired by her interest in the perception of space and her relationship to nature. Tanja’s works, incorporating photography, collage, video and public art, are evocative meditations on urban space and landscape. Observing recently built legacy or natural sites her work investigates the sociology of space and reflects dynamics hidden under the surface of both the built and natural environment. Tanya Deman’s recent photo compositions have taken the relationship between the built environment and natural landscape to its illogical extremes. The dreamy (uh, nightmarish perhaps) images depict familiar urban forms like skyscrapers and highways, dropped into precarious mountain terrains.

What most interested me about Tanya’s work is how she points a surreal spotlight on the relationship between nature and humans. Her work acts as a voice to humans about the problems we are having to nature and the environmental problems we are enhancing/creating. This is really intriguing to me as I have a strong interest in preserving our environment and keeping it untouched by humans. As a response to this work i intend to create compositions that clearly highlight a significant comparison between the nature and urban landscapes.

I think the image above conveys a very powerful story about the relationship between urban landscapes and the nature. My interpretation of this manipulated image is that at the rate humans are developing our land with buildings, one day we will have no natural land to see. Therefore going to the theatre is the only way that people can see the natural land due to the destruction of it. There are many other ways this can be interpreted for example, the message that nature needs to be appreciated mimicking the way in which people appreciate theatre performances. However most interpretations will follow the intended message of the photographer about having respect for our natural land and bring a realisation of the harsh man made urban development.