Yaoxi
Wei
An Illusory Garden
In the few months of mid-2019, various environmental issues provoked a trending discussion worldwide, which led to my thinking about the damage to the environment caused by human activities, and then I got the inspiration for this project.
This project creates an illusory garden that exists only in the fantasy world, where, I hope, man and nature live in harmony and grow together as a whole. Plants are part of the human body, and the human body is also a container to provide nutrients for plants.
The clock made up of the moon, sun and stars makes the little garden look more like a complete world. This idea is influenced by The Persistence of Memory painted by Dali, in which various twisted hands showing different moments represent distorted time, which can be understood as either static or eternal. In the dimension of time, each creature plays a different role. But even humans, who have evolved to the top of the food chain, cannot live independently of nature. However, in the illusory garden, the limitations of the time dimension have disappeared, and man can live in harmony with nature and maintain an everlasting balance.
