A companion piece with "PHOTOGENESIS", several parking meters grow in a gallery reaching heights of fourteen feet and above, wintry metal branches sprouting from the "trunk" – technology disguised as organic growth. Their continuous supply of nourishment will only, one assumes, give rise to a new crop of parking meters, which in turn will proliferate endlessly, eating up the remaining acres of cityscape.

Such would be a possible reading for METERED GROWTH: an indictment of urban development. Yet the piece also lends itself to a radically different interpretation. For the industrial world need not only represent a threat: it may also be a source of accidental beauty, a garden of unexpected and partly undesigned delights. In its juxtaposition of the mineral and vegetable worlds, the "everyday miracle" celebrates a potential fusion of nature with technology.

The meter, for a city-dweller, is her tree, a downtown street her leafy boulevard. And this need not be an anxious incursion into her life, but can provide a welcome addition to the otherwise barren landscape. Ultimately, perhaps, the functional returns to the purely aesthetic, as the passing years add charm and sap utility; and these meters rise just beyond the reach of anyone who would dare to feed them a quarter.