Him, 2016
Series of Inkjet print on photo paper with glossy lamination
w575mm x h865mm

“We need nature, but nature doesn’t need us.”

In this project, I am making portraits of found objects such as dead parts of plants with the intention of challenging the carelessness and greed that have resulted in massive destruction of out planet's ecosystems.

My aim it to give these objects an identity, personify them by allowing them to reveal the personality that is embedded in them and what they represent through this series of portraits. I hope to raise the awareness to the problem of overdevelopment of land in Hong Kong.  We are on a finite piece of land, on a finite planet. We are fragile, the planet is fragile.

According to Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the controversial question “what is the reality?” is put into discussion.  I set out to explore this theory from the point of view of how people perceive the existence of nature.

At present, to some people the vast economic growth has priority over the importance of nature.  This niche of people is just like those prisoners chained in the cave. They believe the nature is disposable and exploit the natural environment in order to accommodate development.  Their ignorance on how nature cultivates our whole livelihood lead to their superiority over Mother Nature.  Adhering to such a mentality they are reluctant to adopt new knowledge or understanding.

Those holding the opposite perception are trying hard to protect the precious natural resources we have.  These are the minority, having experience other areas which the “chained people” never have before, who demonstrate their aspiration to persuade the authority that there are always alternative to facilitate social development while maintaining an undisturbed natural environment.

It is hard to define the righteous of this argument.  But is it possible to balance between the two extreme objectives and establish a harmonious co-existence world?