At a time when ‘searching for nature’ has a capacity to return 13,430,000,000 results in 0.43 seconds, this work examines an algorithmic ability to rapidly produce findings, in relation to the slower experience of alienation which is also manifest in the act of searching.

This slow and infinitely scrolling monochromatic landscape is part of a larger research into images found as the result of ‘searching for nature on the internet’. In this case, information from a visual sample has been digitally re-interpolated, using generative-imaging tools, resulting in a new and speculative landscape which is unique to this work.

This investigation responds to ecological calls from thinkers such as Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty for a strategy of ontological redefinition to help overcome unclear historical orientations concerning the term ‘nature’. Both authors have dedicated recent books to observing the social and political impasse occurring between conceptions of nature and the project of global progression. Latour and Chakrabarty suggest similar strategies which involve stepping sideways, in order to move forward. My research project embraces the challenge identified by both writers, to work toward a speculative re-conceptualisation of nature (or in this case the found ‘image of nature’) in ways which encourage culturally invented perspectives of opposition to coalesce within new and common territories.