This project is about thinking about what happens to plants in a symbiotic relationship with humans. The inspiration came from my undergraduate major in environmental design. When I was writing my thesis, I often realized that my research on landscape was useless. For example, vertical greening would make plants die soon without soil, so I also wanted to see how long a plant would really die without soil.
Chelsea cookhouse, 2021/11/03
I changed the packaging of my undergraduate thesis to nutritive soil to express a kind of irony: Is the knowledge we give plants really what plants need? And then I literally turned my paper into pulp instead of soil to grow plants.
These are my undergraduate thesis on how plants are used in apartments. I thought it would be an experiment to give back what I know about plants, but what I didn’t expect was that the plants grew better.
I often feel in my daily life that plants are trapped invisibly by human beings and destroyed for human use. Just like when we develop nutrient soils, artificial fertilizers, we say it’s for the plant to grow better, but it’s really because we need to get the fruit of the plant or we want it to grow more attractive. Through this project, I want to explore whether the significance of plants for human beings is just a symbol reflecting human’s desire to belong to nature. What will be the final result of the false naturalization of our over-developed society in which the spirit is extremely ahead of the material?