On an East Village sidewalk, my installations emerge. A toddlers bed envelopes a tree pit, replacing the iron fence that typically serves to protect the vulnerable plant life that remains on New York's streets. The quasi-effective string typically implemented to direct the tree's growth is now tightly strung around the trunk and woven in between the wooden rails of the bed. The installation seeks to understand man and natures isolated and contained life and its shift from the pleasure principle of a biological instinctual reality into the reality principle of cultural forces, enforced uniformity, and civilizations' relentless conquest of nature. My work emphasizes the detachment of society from its instincts and the actuality that where life remains, there must be parameters to dictate its growth. I seek to understand the ethical forces at play, where individuals must navigate a system that encourages conformity and challenges the possibility of creating new containers for one's existence.