ART STREET INSTALLATION I MICHIGAN
If one day even plant pots leave us…
In our ever-changing relationship with nature, sometimes we might have forgotten or even neglected the vital importance of little simple things that surround us.
Just think about the air. It’s one of our essential energy sources to sustain our daily life, yet perhaps rarely anyone of us would have seriously acknowledged its existence, only until our lungs are exhausted or Covid-19 pandemic pushed us to the rising demands of breathing fresher, cleaner oxygen.
Even more visible things than the air couldn’t clinging onto our attention. Before jumping to talk about the disappearance of tropical forest or the extinction of an African animal specie - which are rather strange to our modern daily life, what about the gradual vanishing of many insect types in our garden like bee or ladybug - whose existence are really indispensable to our ecosystem balance? Would you even realize that?
From the flow of such thoughts, our team would like to provoke a surrealist imagination: If one day the plant pots leave us in the most natural way possible: fly to the sky.
Plant pots are the most intimate representation of nature in our modern life, especially to the lives soon intertwined with the fast-changing pace of crowded cities - where nature is frequently encapsulated in every 0.05m³ of earth. We usually think of the plant pots like plain ornaments for the balcony or working space, yet forgeting how a whole natural world exists underneath such pots - a home where sustain lives of trillion million micro-sized creatures.
Through this project we hope to bring the passager an emotional experience of the days if such simple yet important things like that of nature would also want to leave us .
Furthermore, because this is a temporary installation, our team would like to spread the message that we are living in the decade of consumerism, and we are constantly trying to extend our production efforts to satisfy any possible consumption demands. Maybe it’s time we think seriously more about whether or not we should overproduce. Therefore, in this project, we would also like to use plant pots - those simply rented from the stores, and after the exhibition time, would be returned to its original place. As a result, this project would also not produce any new materials, and no products would be held in storage without knowing its reusing date.
