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From nature to culture:
- dead plant
- flower
- berry
- clothing tag
- cigarette butt
- bottle cap

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The way I divided nature to cultural depends on the reason they were created. Two natural objects are obvious (ripen fruits and leaves from trees to a dog's faeces). Then I put the napkin as the first object from the natural to cultural because its purpose is pretty basic, to clean and wipe the dirt off. The chocolate milk and beer packages were then put after as they were created to satisfy people's sense of taste. Especially the beer I thought was a very cultural object, as well as the festival wrist band because of the rapid development of the drinking culture and the festival culture.

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6 objects from my local area. Australia. China.

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6 objects from my local area. Australia. China.

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From  Nature to Culture:
1. Super dry leafs
2. Little red plants
3. Branch from the ground
4. Shells from the beach
5.  Plastic spoon
6. Plastic shopping bag (made in china)

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Nature on the left, culture on the right.
On nature's side, I believe the feather is the "more natural" object, while the twig and the leaf, although natural, they come from trees planted by humans.
On culture's side I found  a piece of a pack of cigarettes (I think), a cigarette butt and a piece of plastic wrapping.

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From Nature to Culture
- Dry leaf of a Roble Sában.
- River stone.
- Sugar cane stick.
- Processed wood stick
- Container door metal lock (cut)
- Piece of concrete brick.

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Objects from the back yard, Cambridge, U.K.  I chose to think about these items in terms of shaped by man or found items in nature so similarly to culture vs. nature. I think everything originates in nature and so these categories aren't rigid. I put them on a continuum. Brick plant stand, piece of plastic, stone, dried flower, twig.

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Walk through the park and streets, Darmstadt Germany

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Walk through the park and streets, Darmstadt Germany

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Left to right:
parmeliaceae
acorn
stone (maybe limestone or marble)
left over of an iced-lolly
crown cap
plastic fastener
The parmeliaceae and the acorn seem fully located in the category of nature. The parmeliaceae and the acorn are domestic in this area. I picked them from a park that boarders natural forrest. The trees in this green space were not planted in terms of landscape architecture. The stone, is from a construction place and seems to be some left over tile, it appears to be a natural stone like limestone or marble. It was taken from nature by men and processed to a specific shape to serve the purpose of constructing houses. Machinery was necessary to access and shape this item. The lolly is made from beech, another domestic natural material shaped into a functional and compostable
object of utility. Both of these items are quite simple in there shape/design. The stone and the lolly are mostly between nature and culture as they resemble both parts rather equally. The crown cap and plastic fastener involve a lot more culture, both are made of synthetic material (in case of the crown cap it is a mixture of the natural resource aluminium and PVC – synthetic and Print). They were invented by men, and designed in a rather complex shape for „cultivated“ storing of foods. Thus the components of the synthetic materials also derive from nature. Everything somehow originates from nature.

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Ambling about the Yard in Salisbury MD USA. = James Hatley

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Ambling about the Yard in Salisbury MD USA. = James Hatley

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It seemed better to take photos of the objects in situ rather than gathering items to bring inside.  As a result, all that returned with me from my nature walk were images, and that decision is itself a cultural one.  A garden pretty well confuses with abandon the distinction between culture and nature.  My "objects" in a rough continuum from nature to culture: 1) An oak leaf hydrangea bud of a hybridized cultivar whose species itself is indigenous;  2)  A camelia bud happy to burgeon under the shade of indigenous holly trees,  but whose species stems from Japan; 3) Mealworms encased in a steel cage for the insectivore birds wintering over; 4) An aluminum name tag identifying a dogwood tree which is an indigenous species increasingly suffering from blight; 5) A garden stake used to prop up tomatoes in the summer, also attractive to dragonflies who perch on it in the summer;  6) A Shinto bell from Japan celebrating the spirit of my eastern shore Maryland  garden where it now hangs, ringing out in tune with the wind; 7)  A McDonald's food container, a pain for me to behold but not so for any  beetle or roly poly hiding in its innards.

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A walk by the river in my home town Darwen, UK

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A walk by the river in my home town Darwen, UK

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Nature-culture continuum from left to right.
Dandelion is a local, wild growing plant
Oak leaf, native but possibly planted
Sycamore leaf, non-native
Scrap of newspaper, cultural but biodegradable
Ring pull, probably aluminum, extracted from natural ore but non-biodegradable
Plastic bottle top, manufactured from fossil fuels, non-biodegradable
Biodegradability came up for me as another measure of how natural something is, as well as whether it is a living thing, so a human-made item could be more natural if it can break down back into the environment.

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Collection from a walk in a remnant rainforest in Lismore, NSW. Australia 

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Collection from a walk in a remnant rainforest in Lismore, NSW. Australia 

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(Left to right)
- A twig from unidentified tree
- a leaf from native fig tree
- an ibis feather
- a remnant rusty can
- a piece of plastic wrapping, and
- a piece of hard plastic.

As a continuum from left, nature, through to culture, but realising that these distinctions aren't so clear and overlap. For example, the twig may be from a planted tree (nature-culture), the ibis feather from a bird who have made this area their home because  their wetland habitat has been affected, through to manufactured plastic whose presence is there possibly from heavy rain (culture-nature).

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- A tiny plastic Moomin figure
- A match
- Leaf
-Coin
-Gravel

On a scale, going from nature to culture I would intuitively list them in the following order:
Leaf - Gravel - Match - Coin - Moomin

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A wander around my local area in South East London.

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A wander around my local area in South East London.

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Interesting activity, as it's not as easy to put them in a nature - culture order. I've put the apple tree bark first as I know that tree is iver 100 years old, but it has been planted by man when this area was an orchard. Then I have the tree seed case, followed by the ivy leaf. Then I picked up a piece of plastic from a car accident in the road, which is man made but made from a natural substance. This was followed by a coin which feels very light, but again manmade  from natural minerals, probably. Finally a label whichever I should likely to be synthetic.

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A walk near home, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

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A walk near home, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

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(left to right)
from more natural to more cultural:
- a feather (i don't know from which  bird);
- geranium leaves;
- an expanded clay rock;
- a pack of banana paste bar (traditional brazilian snack/dessert made just with bananas);
- a pamphlet of a candidate of councilor (municipal elections were 4 months ago);
- a plastic bag.

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A nature culture continuum from left to right starting with pumice from a volcanic eruption; a fresh water shellfish; a partly eaten Mahoe leaf; a swan feather; a bit of a sponge and lastly a plastic straw. i know that the pumice and mahoe tree are natural to NZ. I'm not sure if  the freshwater shellfish is though. The swan is an Australian import.

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From my garden - Caroline Mason Canterbury UK

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From my garden - Caroline Mason Canterbury UK

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1) Wood pigeon feather - from passing bird - native
2) Sweet chestnut bark -  from logs brought for fire - non native
3) Zantedeschia aethiopica leaf - planted in garden non native
4) Chalk from subsoil
5) Slate chipping - from the garden path
6) Polystyrene presumably from plant packaging.

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From around my back garden - Midlands Ireland - John Kiely

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From around my back garden - Midlands Ireland - John Kiely

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1)The shell was picked up from a beach somewhere and I know its the sign for the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.
2) Clothes peg
3) A label for tomatoe seeds planted.
4) A fat ball for feeding
birds, contained in a plastic mesh.
5) A piece of string
6) A plastic plant pot.

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After a walk down the street where I live in Pretoria, South Africa, the items I collected for this activity includes; a twig, a leaf from a pomegranate tree, a piece of glass, a piece of a wall, sandpaper and a plastic packet.

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Alley near apartment building, Louisville KY USA  

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Alley near apartment building, Louisville KY USA  

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City neighborhood with many trees; alley behind homes on city street with university  on other side of alley. I picked up what I was attracted to and thought a lot about how some of the natural items were probably planted by humans as this area is about 70 or so years old.
1.  Walnut--perhaps trees planted by university.
2.  Leaf from bushes--planted by neighbors.
3.  Pod from a large tree along alley--planted by university.
4.  Tree bark mulch; trees cut by humans and put through process to acquire the mulch.
5.  Cardboard--trees cut by  humans--went through several manufacturing processes.
6. Broken glass--process of combining natural items and put through manufacturing process.

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A walk through North Lismore, NSW Australia

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A walk through North Lismore, NSW Australia

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The Northern Rivers is renowned as a green, 'natural' and fertile region, and is a highly 'cultured' landscape. In this image, Nature starts with the landscape itself. Hills in the background, vegetation abounds. The Cultural element is already creeping in- this stretch of road was raised a couple of years back, the culvert installed to mediate floodwater overflow. The vegetation at right is a bank of the locally ubiquitous weed tree Camphor Laurel (introduced as a shade tree, now chokes out native trees), flanked by native - but human planted - Hoop Pines. The grasses are not native, but planted and mown. The electricity poles are local hardwood, installed by humans to support cultural infrastructure. The signpost is constructed from mined minerals, fabricated plastics and the ultimate  cultural artifact, language,   flanked by a lone shopping trolley, cultural icon of human habitation across the globe.

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1.  Star mosses/ Bracket Fungi -grows on trees and rotting wood)/ Natural
2. Drop of water on twig with a cone, Natural.
3. Sheep wool  they are grazing on the fell. Natural living mammals but also cultural - bred &selected out for certain traits by humans over time. The sheep near us "Hefted- they "home" their /bit of fell .
4. Lichens with Red tips of growing the top of a wall, We have an abundance of different lichens including crustose (sticky out) kinds indicate good air quality.
5. Sheep poo in a heap  and hole of the dung beetle (lives about 30cms below ground warm and snug with a ready source of food.
6. Plastic coke bottle- inescapable to get away from traces of Plastic rubbish - Man made from Petrochemical produced from oil formed from natural products. Sadly as plastic, it remains in the environment, becoming ingested by animals breaking down into smaller particles entering the food chain etc...
We are lucky to be in a relatively rich in nature and biodiversity. But it is a cultural landscape, and still heavily influenced by people. Because its upland it hasn't got intensive agriculture, and some mining and quarrying grazing impacts on the ecology as does human habitation, farming , tourism and recreation.

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A walk through along the streets in Ghana

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A walk through along the streets in Ghana

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1. A cassava leaf
2. A tiny piece of wood
3. A piece of black polythene bag
4. An empty plastic bootle
5. A stone
6. A part of a broken TV antenna

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Front garden (from top left)
1. Ivy leaf
2. Stone
3. Locust tree seeds
4. Little plastic bag
5. Paper label
6. Plastic string

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A monsoon day puddle-leap through the backyard, North Queensland

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A monsoon day puddle-leap through the backyard, North Queensland

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NATURE (from front)
1.leaf spray, self sown indigenous wetland tree
2. driftwood- collected from nearby beach
3.found natural objects assembled by child to describe a nest
4. Sambung leaf-introduced food plant
5: Clay ball- natural material turned art
6: Truck- primarily manufactured, unnatural material and a toy
CULTURE

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Bradley Woods and back garden, Newton Abbot, UK

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Bradley Woods and back garden, Newton Abbot, UK

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Sheep wool
Cultivated garden plants
Lichen, native plants

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More natural from left to less natural on right.
I would not say any are natural, as they are all touched by man and yet natural materials are used for all... it is more to what extent. I do not think you can really separate them. From an indigenous plant planted in a garden to wood treated with creosote or rags made from natural ingredients... they are all both natural and not, and in the same way all cultural.

What I found more interesting was the choices people made / make. We could all have found 'natural' or not, our viewpoint (especially cultural influence) helps us choose what we did?

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1. Paddington Canal
2. Tree by my house
3. Tree near Waterloo
4. Sticker
5. Cone
6. Handprints

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Wandering through the small city garden, Belgrade, Serbia

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Wandering through the small city garden, Belgrade, Serbia

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1.       A feather

2.       A twig of Ligustrum vulgare

3.       A pebble

4.       A gravel

5.       Candy wrapper

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A walk in the winter forest, Taunus, Germany

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A walk in the winter forest, Taunus, Germany

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1. Small branch with moss and lichen
2. A cone
3. Sawdust
4. A stone from the path
5. A string
6. A wrapper of a chocolate biscuit bar

Actually I divided my finds in:
2 natural (1&2)
2 'semi-natural' (3&4 - the sawdust is made by humans and the stone was used to build a path; it wouldn't been found there without human intervention)
2 cultural (5&6)

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A walk on the beach and back, went by the vegetable trader on my way home Lene Ødegaard,Oslo

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A walk on the beach and back, went by the vegetable trader on my way home Lene Ødegaard,Oslo

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1.Sea Shell
2.Bird Feathers
3.Peppermint
4.Hemp Thread
5.Porcelain shard
6.Reflex

1&2  found in its Natural environment
3 Natural but imported
4,5&6 processed and from ceveral nature Resources.

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1. Carabao gras
2. Kerson fruit
3. Palm fruit
4. Cigarette butt
5.  Broken tile
6. Salon call card

The first three items are natural the last three are cultural. I agree with the definition of nature in this exercise because the first 3 items that i picked are really produced from plants and i think the only human intervention is watering the plants in the park. Unlike the last 3 items where from processing to final product is really done by humans.

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"Things", more o less natural, related with a run in the suburbs of Madrid (Spain)

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"Things", more o less natural, related with a run in the suburbs of Madrid (Spain)

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Nacho Santos
I like to think and organize my ideas when I am running (not too long, not too fast)... so I used this afternoon run to think about the exercise... i didn´t pick objects... instead, I have been reflecting about "things" I have seen... I have clear both extremes of the  continuum artificial-natural (1my running shoes and a 6tree) but what about the rest? (2water from the shower,3a stone wall, 4pruned ivy over a wall, 5a men made path in a mediterranean forest where I like to run/walk... I have written from less natural-water-  to more natural -the path- taking into account the technology used to produce it)

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Dredging Tip Treasures
My six items are, from left to right
The plastic nose cone from a firework rocket
The rubber sole of a child's shoe
Part of a plastic rabbit/tree guard
A twig with moss growing on it
A teasel seed head
A pink snail shell
The first three are manufactured by people by using natural resources but now they are not very biodegradable and are cultural' junk'.
The second three are natural items, but are also discards, non-living things, with the exception of the moss growing on the twig. All three were found on the disused dredging tip near where I live. It has been disused for over 40 years and is pretty inaccessible so has been ' reclaimed by nature'. It is one of the most ' natural' places I know, but it is structurally completely man-made.

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Vaughan Jones
On the left are natural items; an Elm leaf, a dried wild Protea flower, and a granite stone. On the right are cultural items; cardboard, a screw, and a pen.
All cultural or man-mad items are made from nature, cardboard from trees, a screw from iron ore, and a pen;s plastic from oil and the ink from various sources.

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1. Carabao gras
2. Kerson fruit
3. Palm fruit
4. Cigarette butt
5.  Broken tile
6. Salon call card

The first three items are natural the last three are cultural.

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Elly's objects from walk home after work along city streets PEI Canada

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Elly's objects from walk home after work along city streets PEI Canada

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Love the exercise and our use of language. Words are important! I have come to believe  that we are all part of nature, and in that sense all my objects are "natural", so I haven't categorized my objects in the photo - partly (I must admit) because my main concern was to make them all fit on the tray :-D - But I will continue to think about the natural/cultural idea. They are from L to R - a type of spruce cone which I think was chewed over by a squirrel. The outer husks plus the inner nut of a horse chestnut tree, a red oak leaf (one of the last leaves to drop in the autumn here), a hydrangea flower cluster (they blow around in the winter!), balsam fir twigs from a christmas tree (left behind after the streetside pickup), a yellow caution tape from a construction area, a piece of asphalt (broken from winter freeze/thaw maybe), the ubiquitous Canadian Tim Hortons coffee cup AND a snowball from my front yard. I felt it very important to include some snow. I suppose even the snow has an aspect of human culture because I decided to make a snowball out of it for this photo ...

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A plastic lolly wrapper, a box that once contained fungicide cream, a paper ribbon, a bougainvillea flower/leaf, a piece of bark and a jacaranda seed pod. As I was collecting them, I was already thinking about how the 'cultural' objects were really 'natural' because they derived from the planet, so plastic from oil (I think), cardboard from wood, paper from wood etc, and that was because of the prompt from Susie's video when she was talking about the coin coming from mining.

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The items I have photographed are all natural. From left a turtle skeleton found washed up on the beach about  2kms from my home, a guinea fowl feather.  We have many wild guinea fowl and their chicks in our area. In fact the coastal wind blew a chick into our garden a month back and I returned it to the very agitated mom. Next is a seed pod from a Dietes, an indigenous Iris. A seed pod from a species of Pincushion Protea an indigenous shrub. A leaf from a Fairy Crassula and a flower and leaf of a Plectranthus.

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1. flowers - used for ornamental purposes: a flower painted with chalk
2. leaves: kids painted the fallen leaflets
3. stones: kids made dolls with stones and learned that nature is a treasure full of resources
4. school garden: fairy garden: students decorated it with paper work
5. apple and grape: they may have a human-like face: they have signs on them
6. doing artwork in the nature reminds us of the beauty of nature

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Ros Edwards
Natural to cultural- although nothing here can be termed natural.
1. Stone from areas around trees.
2. Bark used as mulch.
3. Bougainvillea flower
4. Leaf and flower from unidentified tree
5. plain A4 paper
6. Printed card

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No truly nature-culture spectrum  All of the six objects I picked up in the dark from my garden I would consider “cultural”. Of my culture. What my culture has become.  Only one, a stone, I would consider most “natural” more “natural” less transformed in my lifetime than the others. But I classify it as "cultural" because it has been moved by a human using some tool(s) from its place of birth, to meet the need for reconstructed beauty- culturally manufactured/defined - personal or collective. They may all be thought of as natural now in the sense that after a certain time, they have come into/become part of this environment, this cultural space regardless of how harmful that migration was to the “natural”, the once was, an untouched natural world.Such a helpful approach to discuss the vocabulary of what is nature, that may not be seen as natural; what is culture that may not smell as cultured; what is human that may not be felt as humane. Karren in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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No truly nature-culture spectrum  All of the six objects I picked up in the dark from my garden I would consider “cultural”. Of my culture. What my culture has become.  Only one, a stone, I would consider most “natural” more “natural” less transformed in my lifetime than the others. But I classify it as "cultural" because it has been moved by a human using some tool(s) from its place of birth, to meet the need for reconstructed beauty- culturally manufactured/defined - personal or collective. They may all be thought of as natural now in the sense that after a certain time, they have come into/become part of this environment, this cultural space regardless of how harmful that migration was to the “natural”, the once was, an untouched natural world.Such a helpful approach to discuss the vocabulary of what is nature, that may not be seen as natural; what is culture that may not smell as cultured; what is human that may not be felt as humane. Karren in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Diana Bagnall
Natural to cultural
1. Fallen leaf from the grapevine (how old? maybe 50 years?) which we inherited with our house. Grapes were brought to Australia by Europeans.
2. Clam shell from far north Queensland, one of several I brought back from a sailboat voyage. Already quite worn from its former life on the beach.
3. Pebble from our yard, brought in, originally from river bed in NSW
4. Brick, left over from building, chipped, now used as gate jamb.
5. Rubber ball, recently lobbed over our back fence by children moving in next door.
6. Plastic scoop, used in our cat's outdoor sandpit.

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1. A small piece of brick,
2. cigarette
3. receipt
4. plastic cane
5. baloon
6. plastic top

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1.   piece of gravel - natural stone but probably mechanically crushed, transported, and spread
2.  small twig - natural native species, but from regrowth after land cleared for farming was abandoned
3.  dog excrement - natural but probably from domesticated dog kept as pet
4.  stone - natural local stone but from a stone wall made by people as they cleared fields and established controls for animals
5.  dead leaf - natural and probably indigenous species but from a pile of leaves created by people removing leaves from their yards
6. metal nut - manmade object fabricated from natural non-local materials

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1. A rock from my garden.
2. A leave of Rhus Lancea.  this stree was on a sidewalk in the suburbs where I stay.  I live in the highveld area.  this tree naturally occur in the highveld, however this one has been planted.
3. Rosemary from my garden.  Not in its natural environment and might have been subjected to some modification.
. A rock from the road.  this rock was mined and does not naturally occur on the surface. Possibly contain bitumen.
5. A newspaper, made from trees and many other chemicals.
6. Chip wrapping - plastic

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From my local farmland, starting with the most natural.
1. Oak leaf (in hedgerow)
2. Flint (ploughed up)
3. Twig (ripped off by machinery)
4. Pheasant feather (non-native)
5. Oil seed rape leaf (cultivated)
6. Rubber band (for human use)

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Walk around my block - urban neighborhood - Louisville, KY, USA

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Walk around my block - urban neighborhood - Louisville, KY, USA

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Jennifer Owens
Nature-->Culture
1. Collection of straw (possibly from a bird's nest).
2. Fallen leaf
3. Fallen berry/seed
4. Wood chip from playground
5. Plastic potted plant label
6. Piece of broken glass
7. (opps I did 7) broken lighter piece.

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See all the wonderful things UNSW MOOC has made

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See all the wonderful things UNSW MOOC has made

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Natural to cultural
1. Dry leaf
2. A seashell
3. Piece of paper
4. Button
5. Elastic band
6. Plastic bag

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Jay feather, natural but lives in managed woodland.
Heron, on man made canal.
Bronze age barrows. Cultural from natural materials
Scots pines, sort of natural but not indigenous to this area, and aggressively invasive.
Brick & china fragments, cultural from natural materials.
My pond, cultural with natural end results.
Much more to this than at first glance!

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Nature in Culture - coffee shop views Johannesburg, South Africa

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Nature in Culture - coffee shop views Johannesburg, South Africa

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Estelle Martinson
1. Butterfly in garden setting which is a cultural manifestation.
2. Human being - nature and culture, of course not an 'object', but I was curious where I'd fit it on the spectrum.
3. Suburb full of trees and gardens amongst human dwellings.
4.  Pebbels in a man-made water fountain.
5. Foot path made from wooden slats which used to grow as trees.
6. Coca-cola tin containing sugar and water etc.

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Cycad fruit, pine cone, lizard earring, tiny book with arabic, paint container, plastic sexy mermaid.

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From Rotary Park Rainforest Reserve, Lismore, NSW, Australia

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From Rotary Park Rainforest Reserve, Lismore, NSW, Australia

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Culturenature -> Natureculture
1. discarded aluminium drink can
2. Aluminium number to identify a tree on a guided walk - tree now dead, fallen, rotted; number naturally in good condition
3. leaf from white fig - a species native to Gympie Qld planted, it is said, by the Rotary Club in 1950s
4. Australian ibis feather from nesting colony - refugees from wetland destruction in western NSW who have "culturally" adapted by building nests in tree canopy rather than on wetland reed rafts
5. Snail shell from Brush Turkey nest mound
6. Leaf of Moreton Bay Fig - estimated to be 300+ years old, so precedes British invasion. Fig tree culturally significant to Bundjalung people as known birthing place.

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Natural to cultural.
1. A twig. Could be from anywhere.
2. A smooth pebble. It could be from anywhere.
3. A rhododendron leaf. Native to Himalaya area. Subject to selective breeding. Planted about 40 years ago.
4. Orange peel. Not native to my area. Selective breeding and other processes to make it juicy, seed free.
5. Small piece of asphalt. Manufactured but oil comes from long dead life forms.
6. Green plastic bottle cap. Manufactured, but oil as component. Possibility that green colouring could have some natural component.

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A walk around fields and farm, Southwestern Ontario, Canada

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A walk around fields and farm, Southwestern Ontario, Canada

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From left to right: a discarded paper cup, a broken piece of brick, a shard of drainage tile, a small rock, a pine cone, a strip of bark from a birch tree.

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Plastic nose cone probably from a firework
Plastic cup
Chocolate wrapper
Oak leaf
Lichen
Daisy flower

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1. Leaf - Natural but the tree was probably planted by a human
2. Moss - Natural but its habitat (my roof) was built by humans
3. Glove - Cultural, made from natural materials but farmed and processed
4. Plastic Peg - Cultural, made by humans using oil and numerous processes.
5. Plastic Pot - Cultural, as with the peg, made by humans from oil
6. Expanded Polystyrene Packaging - Cultural, totally our fault!

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My front and back yard, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

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My front and back yard, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

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Tom Cleveland
Row 1: Cultural: polymer snow shovel handles, glass and polymer solar garden light, polymer outside thermometer

Row 2: Natural (although all three are non-native cultivars): Rhododendron, red oak variety, variegated boxwood

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Week 2 - Nature-Culture Spectrum Activity

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Judith Henry
All plants grow 'naturally' in my garden
1.Top-local indigenous plants -but bought from nursery
2. Fruit pod of Carob tree - also originally bought from nursery and Acorn fruit of Oak tree- native to Northern not Southern hemisphere (not sure when planted)
3. Empty snail shells
4. Weathered rock from Namib desert - but now taken from natural habitat.
5.Piece of concrete from building rubble
6. Plastic, nails used in DIY and old bone purchased from butcher for the dog.

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Natural to Cultural:

1. Seed - Natural,
moved by the wind
2. Leaf- Natural but planted by my friend
3.  Apple core - Natural, but transported, cultivated, bought in a store
4. Shell - Natural, but used to make a path
5. Brick - Cultural, made to build a red brick house
6. Plastic - Cultural, completely created by humans,

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Shell

At first glance this is natural, however it was part of a prepackaged dinner before Christmas and after we had eaten it I though it would be a nice decorative item. While it hasn't gone through a manufacturing process, it has been used for something which was manufactured, and has been transported away from its natural habitat.

= mostly natural but ended up in my garden culturally.

Plastic rabbit watering can

This is made from plastic and not natural materials so far into the cultural camp. Plastic is synthetic, however the compounds used to make it would have been originally derived from natural sources at some point.

= far towards cultural but could be traced back to natural sources.

Stick of plywood with paint on

While wood is natural, this has gone through a manufacturing process to turn it into plywood. The paint can be made from synthetic or natural resins, I would expect this is synthetic, but like the plastic it would be possible to trace back to natural origins eventually. It was an off cut from a diy project.

= I would put this in the middle, perhaps further to the cultural side.

Twig of thyme

The thyme itself is natural, being a plant, and it does originate in my country (I believe, although it could have been introduced from continental Europe centuries ago). However, I planted the thyme to use for cooking, and so it does not occur here naturally.

= far towards natural, but the reasons for its location are cultural.

Clothes peg

Made from wood and metal (not sure which one), which are both 'natural' (ie not mixed with anything else) materials, which have undergone a manufacturing process. It is used for drying clothes which is a purely cultural.

= I would put this further towards cultural, perhaps in between the middle and cultural.

Morning frost

I don't have a photo of this and it's not really an 'item' but thought it was an interesting one, because it naturally occurs when the temperature is below certain level, and there is no cultural reason for it to be here - it just occurs. The only cultural influence that I can think of is if the amount of frost is affected by human activity - i.e. It could be that without human activity, the frost would be thicker, or could be ice or snow instead of frost.

= natural with a small cultural element.

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Cam - week 2 photo activity - object identification at Central Coast NSW Australia

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Cam - week 2 photo activity - object identification at Central Coast NSW Australia

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These items were identified along walkways/footpath of suburban streets Woy Woy NSW Australia.
Row 1: Natural items:  Frangipani flowers dropped from the tree on the ground,  dog poo - although it naturally produced from an animal, it's location has been influenced by humans (on walking path), fallen tree branch/twig.
Row 2: Not natural: water bottle dumped beside the street, beer bottle lid - which is metal which has been sourced from natural resources and reformed by humans with the adding of chemicals by way of paint, and old cigarette butt.

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Cam W - week 2 activity - outdoor photos

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From culture to nature:
1. Hoe
2. Water in watering can
3. Hazelnut shell
4. Wood chips
5. Chilli pepper
6. Basile sprout

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Rank from nature to culture:

1. Twig
2. Dry leaf - did this come from a tree or a plant grown in a pot?
3. Bottle cap - recyclable
4. Paper receipt - non-recycable due to ink and paper material
5. Plastic bag
6. Plastic food wrapper

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At the nature end of the spectrum, I would put the birch twig, the rock, and the rhododendron leaf. At the culture end, I would put the juice bottle and its cap, the yogurt container, and the label from a nursery plant.

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Back yard in  Pennsylvania USA

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Instead of using the categories division, I am going to list the objects as a continuum.
An empty cardboard cointainer of peach juice - a gum - a one cent coin - a tree stick or branch that will probably end in a stork's nest - petals from a flower, I think it is an almond tree - propaganda about a bussiness that sells old cars.

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This is from a semi industrial setting. However, as I am working on artworks which deal with the ocean, I had a lump of seaweed outside so I picked that up. There is a dried banksia leaf and a white stone, all of which I have placed in the nature category. The objects culture category quite resemble the natural items, exceopt that they have geometric, hard edges, ie, a circular plastic lid, a square timber palette, and the corner of a faded photo of a birds nest. These last three itesm in some way all speak to nature inthe textures and colours, the timber, the image of a nest, the shape of the moon.

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During walk to and from the city yesterday - no camera taken.  Difficult to decide on which most "natural" as all had human interventions so order goes from culture to nature but all have essence of both:
1. Decomposing McDonald's fries carton
2. Glass shard that was being rounded off by nature.
3. Red Mahonnia flower - at one time an imported plant and in a car park flower bed - being used as a "green" technology as local police recommend to prevent short cuts into gardens,etc .
4. Dead holly leaf - if had been from a variegated tree may have been further towards culture.
5. Road salt crystals - occur naturally but mechanically mined and spread for human benefit.
6. Pigeon feather - from feral city pigeon so relying on people for food and probably bred from an escaped racing pigeon in first place.

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Hi  I found some stones  and wood from the beach  these seem natural but the wood  was from   something and the stones were natural although  at other times you can find glass stones not so  natural. I found a sweet wrapper not natural although at one time the sugar would have been!

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Hi  I found some stones  and wood from the beach  these seem natural but the wood  was from   something and the stones were natural although  at other times you can find glass stones not so  natural. I found a sweet wrapper not natural although at one time the sugar would have been!

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Tarmac and ivy-leaved toadflax
Buddliea plant growing from the wall
Dog violet growing from the wall
Dandelion growing out of the wall
Unidentified plant bushing out from the wall like a firework

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frangipane flower going brown lucky ticket found on pavement
happy waving cartoon cat - tips jar
ink brush on rest
pest control device in a gallery

The flower is first as it is a flower and it is decomposing - a natural act but one happening on a pristine pavement, so its seems out of place.

The tips jar - referencing nature but also removed from natural.

The lucky ticket is also past its best obviously as it has been discarded- no longer of the cultural value it represents.

Chinese Brush - a tool of culture often used to depict a stylised version of 'nature'.

I put the pest control last as this is actively anti-nature, at least, it is anti-life.

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While cleaning the railways near a small lake in Tuluá, Valle, Colombia

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While cleaning the railways near a small lake in Tuluá, Valle, Colombia

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Today in the morning a group of citizens willing to "heal" the environment did a cleaning and I randomly chose these objetcs. I tried to order them in a good way: tree stick/branch, a piece of tile, a plastic piece, a plastic bag of milk, a broken piece of a white fluorescent lamp. It's worth noting that the four last objects have been thrown by humans on purpose, which makes me feel a bit sad...

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It was early morning, on my way to work when this imagine catched my attention. The mist and the crow on  a London´s typical grey sky; the transport advertisement, the public light..
The dualities of human and non human beings, in the complexity of share the same shelter ¨ earth planet, we call it¨ Every day scenes of same needs of movement, food, survival...

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At the time of my working on this assignment I could not step out so I made good of what my hands could grab:  hand gloves, hat, banana, peas, water, coke, coffee.  Excuse my confusion; the water comes before coke. I had issues creating a continuum So banana, peas, and water, I classify under natural and the rest cultural. But, then I find it somewhat inappropriate to class coffee as natural....

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1. plastic shoe heel
2. cash bag
3. branch crushed by cars
4. Ginko leaf
5. Himalayan birch bark
6. Magpie droppings
I was most interested in the middle objects, especially 3., where human interventions had obviously combined with natural processes.

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Found objects

1 Branch fallen from tree in market Place.
2 Snowdrop from my garden
3 Can of beer
4 Two stones in gravel driveway
5 Plastic coated wire
6 Plastic 'pearl'

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I collected

1. One Shell

2. One leaf

3. One plant (from my backyard)

4. One cork

5. One can of Soda

6. And advertising flyers.