New Nostalgia

Inspired by the Chinese artwork Moonlight, this research focuses on future congestion in the landscape. The artist superimposes scenes of modern city life over the mountain peaks and waterfalls of a Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) shanshui — “mountains and water” — painting.

There is an inherent nostalgia in the work for an older culture and way of life — with the implication that the intrusion and sheer speed of modern progress, and of foreign influence, is inevitable and relentless. My aim was to animate that progress: how the landscape would gradually be occupied by human buildings.