Sharing with you...work from Peishan Huang ('21)!

Artificial Nature, 2019-(ongoing)

Humans built cities in nature.
Humans built new natures in their cities.

In the tens of thousands of years after the first city was built in the world, people continuously tried their best to update the definition and appearance of the city. Later, a new kind of nature appeared in the city that was created by humans. I want to call it Artificial Nature. Today, artificial nature is also an important part of environmental design.
My recent works are related to this behavior ---- building artificial nature. Specific patterns, colors, symbols, and the scenes that are combined with them are subjects of my photos. They are inanimate objects and are manufactured with a certain purpose. Humans rarely appear in my photos, but the trace of humans are everywhere. I used this hidden information to build the language of my works.

For Fall show 2019, I experimented with installing my photos. I wanted the installation of photos to be part of my work, and furthermore, the process of watching my photos can become part of it too.

In Loving Memory of Eternity

12x8x20 inches
Wood, inkstick, glass, modeling gel, plastic flowers, plastic beads, copper wire, nylon thread, plastic wine cup

This is a gravestone for the things which will never die. The ambiguous, semi-transparent text is less obvious in the work, so the audience only can read them clearly when they walk in, rather than quickly interpreting the content through the text. I placed a plastic wine cup, a bunch of fake flowers, and plastic beads inside this transparent gravestone. These items always appear in ceremony, and they are made from artificial materials which are non-biodegradable. The spiral and the cup overflow, metaphorically dynamic and alive. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
What is between eternity and death, movement and stillness, celebration and mourning, light and dark? The answers to these questions will inspire different emotions and dance in this small space.