Hybrids is a contemplative series of three digital artworks — Hybrid No. 1, Hybrid No. 3, and Hybrid No. 4 — by Australian artist Katherine Boland. The series explores the uneasy convergence of ecology and technology.

Rooted in photographs taken in rainforest gorges and bushfire-scarred landscapes, the works digitally reassemble fragments of the natural world. Twigs, leaves, bark, and native flora are mirrored, layered, and reshaped into unfamiliar botanical forms that hover between recognition and rupture.

Rather than striving for traditional balance or harmony, Boland’s symmetrical compositions evoke a sense of controlled distortion — wildness filtered through the logic of generative algorithms. Nature is not merely reflected, but reconfigured: dissected, duplicated, and digitally sutured into speculative ecologies. What appears whole is often fractured, echoing a world increasingly disrupted by human influence.

In Hybrids, Boland engages in a form of digital rewilding that is both elegiac and speculative. The series captures a moment when the natural world is simultaneously disappearing and being simulated — its textures preserved in code, its rhythms disrupted by the mechanisms of machine vision. The work poses vital questions: How do we relate to a living world increasingly mediated by technology? What does it mean to archive nature in the digital realm?

More than a purely aesthetic project, Hybrids is a quiet reckoning with ecological fragility, loss, and transformation. Boland’s images reflect on the tensions between decay and preservation, organic matter and artificial processes. Each work becomes both an archive and an apparition — a flickering memory of wilderness and a poetic speculation on what new forms might emerge in the wake of environmental destruction.