ANTHROPOCENE - a great inspirational book from the passionate nature lovers

“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now. From up and down and still somehow. Its’ cloud’s illusions I recall. I really don’t know clouds at all. - Joni Mitchell, Both sides Now, 1969”

I treasure the moments of life in nature especially because I grew up in Hong Kong, the real concrete jungle with dense population. Nature perpetually has a consistent rhythm and way to restore balance even amidst chaotic moments.

Based on discovery from aerial landscapes by Edward Burtynsky with Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas De Pencier, I am inspired to explore and contemplate upon the degree and intensity of human activity and its interruptions onto the harmony of natural landscapes, in particular the flow of nature. And yet with the intervention of human activities, from agricultural expansions and industrial revolution, the signature and traces of our ever-advancing technological progress has caused irrevocable changes to the natural landscapes.

My project intends to produce a series of ceramic installations to explore and dramatize the tension and conflict when human landscapes clashes with the flow of such natural order.