Hirschkoff's work explores the perception of the natural world as symbolic landscape, artifice, and modular utility.  Consisting of sculptural works, collage and on-site installation, Hirschkoff's work borrows from theatrical prop, architectural façade, crude mechanical prototype, and advertising media to portray isolated landscape elements removed from the context of a natural setting. Repeatedly drawn to the cartoonish cloud as a subject.  Whether ominous, impassive, buoyant, or morose, this bubbly motif serves an archetype whose emblematic value surpasses its ability to realistically describe the complex natural phenomenon from which it was derived.  Flat and fragmented, this familiar form is assembled as a stand-in for the natural world.
     The conspicuous use of commonplace and industrial building materials, emphasize the idea of an awkwardly contrived model of the natural world, while electronic and kinetic components that are incorporated present a mechanical operation that might be viewed as sublime, redundant or futile.  
By presenting imagery that is at once familiar and absurd Hirschkoff hopes to present a contradiction bringing into question the view of the natural and the artificial through the lens of human ingenuity.