Non-Nature

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City’s fences hides the destruction of nature inside, but ironically, those barriers are adorned with sparkling artificial green grass, depicting a virtual vision of forest and city co-existing, so as to undermine human guilt for destroying nature. However, because of their difficult-to-degrade qualities, this plastic “green” is another sort of environmental damage, this phenomenon of harming ecology while pretending to be environmentally friendly piqued my interest. Through the use of installation and photography, I would like to draw people’s attention to the truth behind the common fence and the pollution caused to the environment due to the use of continuous artificial turf. The aim is to bring this to the attention of people and to encourage them to reconsider their intense relationship with nature and address various emerging environmental and social issues.

After I completed the installation, I had to address the issue of garbage disposal (the turf has now been recycled to the garbage factory). I’d like to use photography to draw attention to the phenomenon of people dismissing artificial turf as trash. I created a continuous “junk hill” in an abandoned building using rubbish and turf. The turf was designed to hide the internal devastation, but it became a hidden waste in the abandoned building due to the blocked gate. Through the change of space, I attempted to integrate the inner space of the abandoned structure and the stack of turf to emphasize the state that people utilize vision and personal experience to determine the properties of objects and the existence of their functionality. The transformation of the attributes of the turf breaks this inertia and reveals the naked scene behind it.