FORAGING RECIPE
(LAI CHI WO)(SERIES)
2019
Watercolor on paper, plant, photography
Dimensions variable
My art practice has always been questioning how dominant culture has shaped our understanding of nature, and through different forms of art making to remove our presumption about nature and seeking for ‘eccentric’ ways to narrate the nature. Lai Chi Wo is an intersection of nature, culture and lives, a unique place for me to navigate and root my practice on the true earth.
I think of my art as a form of intervention to pre-existing system. Through my artwork, it reveals how dominant culture shapes our understanding of nature, and society. In this work, I take my art as a catalyst and methodology for myself and everybody to reconsider our everyday life, knowledge, and behaviour. Searching for edible weed in Lai Chi Wo, studying them through drawings and my senses. Creating recipe is a way to re-imagine how our diet and eating habit can be, as well as questioning our present food production system.