Projects
Urban Coexistence
The development of urban areas makes it easy for us to see the unequal relationship between nature and human, since cities are usually built by humans in order to construct an ideal space solely for themselves. Streets, buildings, even parks which are essentially trees and ponds were made with considerations based on humans standard of function and comfort.
With urban coexistence, I would like to leave a small note through the trees and plants that have succeeded in growing in the midst of the crush of development. That in the anthropocene era which is all about to human agency, there are still non-human entities in the form of plants that also independently have their own agency. This shows that urban people who live in cities are still indirectly part of nature itself. Because even in the space they create, humans still cannot avoid another force, namely nature, which is evidenced by the plants and trees that grow wild on their natural impulses in those spaces. Therefore, humans are not entirely a single entity that holds control over nature.
As an urban being who lives and works entirely in the city, I always long for nature and enjoy being in the midst of it. I regularly make time to visit various outdoor locations as a form of escape, to feel the freedom and peace there. Then with photography, I can encapsulate the freedom and peace I feel into pictures and take them home to be stored, shared, and enjoyed forever. This year is my ninth year building my long-term photography project where nature is the sole subject. That way, Urban Coexistence is more like a new challenge for me to prioritize more on the relationship between nature and myself as an urban being that I have been ignoring, rather than the escapism from the urban life itself.
