Sitian Zeng
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Synthetic Flora and the Edge of Nature
Watercolour on paper
54cm x 37cm for each
2024
‘Synthetic Flora and the Edge of Nature’ aims to test the boundaries between nature and digital, between the real and the virtual, through the artist’s subjective transformation. The artist uses the pyrography technique; fire burns the edges of the paper, leaving organic, unpredictable marks. The traces of fire and figures of plants gradually turn into mosaic-like forms, trying to blur the boundary between organic and digital synthetic. By layering the grid lines or circle marks, which represent the digital editing tools, the work reflects how my body and subjectivity ‘edit’ nature through a digital lens. It further questions to what degree digital aesthetics are affecting human perception and reality and how the natural and digital realms in a dynamic-power situation dissolve into each other as a whole, continuously shaping individuals' subjectivity.