Austin Cullen: A Natural History (Built to be Seen) – LENSCRATCH

The motivation for my project stems from a childhood interest in museums, and an earlier body of work. When I was younger I regularly visited the Houston Museum of Natural History. The museum showed me a version of nature that was completely different from the city I grew up in. Instead of the urban bayou that I was used to, the museum depicted safaris, jungles, deep sea life, and so much more. In the museum, nature did not feel like something we as humans lived in, but instead a distant spectacle. It taught me about the larger world around me, and it left me awestruck by the far-off places and creatures the museum contained