Using the hyperreal qualities generated by simulation and video-game technologies, John Gerrard challenges the viewer with portraits of beautiful environments imbued with an unnerving serenity and sense that what we are seeing is perhaps too real, too slick. Gerrard creates these portraits or environments in three dimensions, forming a point at which sculpture and photography conflate, ceasing to exist as inert forms but rather instilled with the potential to change or adapt, mirroring that plasticity found in nature. In ‘Dust Storm’ (Manter, Kansas), a dry desert environment is subjected to a randomly unfolding virtual storm, a perpetual dark, dust-laden tempest. Having seen a single archival photograph of this storm (the infamous Black Sunday Dust Bowl storm of 1935), Gerrard set about recreating this event by travelling to Texas and Kansas where he recorded the area with photographs and video and later enhanced his documentation with publicly accessible satellite and topographical data.