Veronica Verkley: Second Nature: FERAL 

October 30, 2017 - January 21, 2018

An abandoned house in the forest gradually collapses as time, nature, animals, and the elements take over and ultimately transform it.

The work, Second Nature: FERAL by Veronica Verkley, reads as a time-lapse shot over several years, but in reality, it is a stop-motion animation shot over many months, with the ruin and decay painstakingly animated by hand. From destruction, there emerges a transformative beauty: the house becomes uninhabitable to some, but in its decay, it becomes refuge for others. Changes in our environment are nearly imperceptible unless sped up as a time lapse, then suddenly, trees spring up and fall back to earth; generations of species eat, sleep, reproduce, die; the very shape of the land fluctuates; days, nights, seasons, and years cycle; climate and ecosystems falter, improvise, regenerate, flourish. Life is resilient.

Second Nature: FERAL focuses on these normally invisible fluctuations, on all the small shifts that secretly, inexorably, add up to epic transformations.

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Exhibition featured: Veronica Verkley, Second Nature: FERAL
30 October, 2017 to 21 January, 2018.
Presented in the Esker Foundation Project Space.

Esker Foundation provides free public programming to encourage participation and to increase accessibility to contemporary art. Programs are created in response to the exhibitions. All are welcome to attend.