My art practice is driven by a curiosity into the oppositions and tensions I observe in the built environment. It aims to question the role structures play in the human pursuit of order, and the manner in which they may succeed and fail in achieving this ambition. In this installation work I have explored these concerns by subjecting a selection of objects appropriated from the contemporary environment to various contrived generative or degenerative processes. The resulting microcosm investigates the tensions between the persistent tendency for visual simplicity or reductionism in structures intended to create order, and the tendency for complexity to emerge from these structures. Grids and rectilinear objects for example, many of which may be evocative of modernist forms, morph into complex networks or become disintegrated or dispersed in this work. By focusing particularly on objects with the function of containment, this installation also highlights the simultaneously constraining and enabling potential of reductive geometric structures. Through these approaches this work re-evaluates the nature of structure as a tool to create order, and thereby human interaction with the built environment.