In the photographic series 'Tin Can Apartment', Carine proposes an abstract, utopian world where mother nature and the industrialized world live in harmony. Carine has shot a series of miniature sculptures, using everyday mass-produced items to represent inner-city apartment blocks and leafy foliage to represent green space. She has shot the still life’s utilizing simple lighting techniques and a kitsch aesthetic reminiscent of a 1980’s Tupperware advertisement, as if her images are also selling an idea or product to improve the functionality of everyday life.

 

Tin Can Apartment proposes a much more simple way of living, with increased (and more creative) green space within our urban jungles. Avoiding the common theme of man versus nature, Tin Can Apartment explores a vision of man and nature living side by side, as a peaceful dichotomy. Construction of both plant life and buildings were considered with equal attention, with neither elemental decision presiding over the other.

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This exploration was featured in Frankie Magazine and The Plant Hunter.