“Temple of Hortus” explores our relationship with the botanical other. In nature, plants adapt and evolve to manipulate their surrounding communities. In our homes we give plants the window, blocking our own access to vitamin D. We anoint them with fertilizer made from blood and bone and the truly devoted build humid, temperature-controlled temples lit by electric pink suns. This art installation of botanically inspired paintings, sculptures and video explores and questions the contemporary consumerism and curation of nature through hybridization, mutation and collection.