'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 endless images of natural catastrophes where we witness how barren the earth has become. I wanted to imagine a way to a world in which plant life evolves to renew itself and restore what human denial and arrogance has erased.

Suppose that two different hedges or trees combined into forms that could resist the threats to their natural environment. By finding ways to join together through their roots, they could create a new species, perhaps appearing as a reflection of themselves. They would not necessarily be dependent upon the soil, but instead they could 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.