Click to read Janelle talk to Lina for The Journal. 

I believe that multiple realities can exist simultaneously and that something can be both real and artificial at the same time. Sometimes nature can feel wild, and yet completely composed. The natural history museum dioramas are a surrogate for natural environments. We can go to one building and travel across continents, visit various ecosystems, and observe wildlife in extreme detail. There is something eerie in the still silence of the diorama; real creatures are not so quiet, and yet these animals are real, and the environments are exact. - Lina Tharsing