Down the street is a place where you can purchase tomatoes engineered to grow larger than your combined fists, and seasonal fruits no matter what the weather’s like outside. It’s your local grocery store, and to Andrzej Maciejewski it illustrates our society’s naïve approach to nature.

The Ontario-based artist contends that while the neatly arranged, mass-produced and bar-coded natural bounty of the produce section might look ideal, many characteristics such as taste and humanity have been lost somewhere between seed and supermarket. That’s what Maciejewski hopes to demonstrate in Garden of Eden, a collection of 24 still-life color photographs on display at the Contemporary Arts Center inside the Arts Factory.

“When you look closely, or when you start tasting those vegetables or fruits, or when you look at how they are packaged and where they come from, or thinking how they are produced, it looks completely different,” Maciejewski says. “I just sort of suggest the question, ‘Are they still the same thing?’”