Land Recomposition is a photographic installation comprising sixteen black-and-white images that examine the relationship between deforestation and soil erosion in a recently clear-felled upland conifer plantation in Kilbehenny, Co. Limerick. The work translates ecological field-study tools into an expanded photographic language.

Arranged as a photographic quadrat, a method drawn from ecological research to sample representative ground sections, each image was taken two meters apart, reflecting the standard planting distance of the trees. This systematic approach allows the work to document the effects of plantation forestry while offering a reflective, poetic recomposition of a fragmented landscape, bridging scientific sampling and visual inquiry.

Through this visual land survey, and in the interplay of measurement and aesthetic attention, Land Recomposition foregrounds the tension between human intervention and the resilience of natural systems, inviting viewers to reconsider notions of landscape, pattern, and ecological transformation.

Land Recomposition was exhibited at the International Sculpture Symposium, Lough Boora Parklands, Co. Offaly, in 2002.