​TREES

"Trees" have carried significant natural and humanistic importance throughout human civilization. The artist creates an immersive forest experience using multimedia video and audio-visual interactions. Trees have always held immense natural and humanistic significance across history. In Christian culture, trees represent heaven, while in Northern Europe, the Ash Tree symbolizes the support of the entire world. Ancient Chinese legends mention a holy tree inhabited by ten suns. Writers have frequently used trees as a metaphor for aspirations, emphasizing their preference for these plants. In reality, trees play a vital role in the earth's ecology. They produce oxygen, store carbon dioxide, and regulate the climate. Forests provide habitat for 80% of amphibians, 75% of birds, and 68% of mammals. However, deforestation and forest fires caused by climate anomalies lead to the destruction of approximately 10 billion trees per year. Consequently, humans bear negative ecological impacts such as floods, species extinction, and extreme climate conditions.

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Against such background, the Project Forest comes into being. This is an ongoing art project. The artist collects materials from his travels into nature, combines Western painting materials and interest and charm of traditional Chinese painting, and finally presents the work with a delicate and subtle spiritual realm after digital processing. It is concrete and abstract, clear and vague, just like our memories of trees, familiar yet mysterious. There is a thousand-year-old tree in China, and a collapsed giant tree in the UK, all appearing at some point in the artist's life. It is a melancholic poem and elegy about the life of forest. When the audience enters a forest, more complex visual effects will be triggered, which indicates the intervention of human action on nature. When human observe and experience the growth and fall of trees, they also witness our civilisation. Now, it is still unclear which one will become merely a part of the other's memory. looking around at this endless universe, human civilisation turns out to be so short. Perhaps, the nature that we cherish and destroy will become a ruined site, running towards an new yet unpredictable era, unable to turn back.