“Nearly Natural” is an ongoing project that stems from my experience of alienation in urban spaces. Addressing the thin line between naturalness and artificiality, I inject the idea of engineered space-making into image-making by digital manipulation and studio setting, showing a perspective of elevated city vision.
A city without an identity is indistinction between reality and illusion but echoes the everyday situation. In the context of urbanization, the natural elements become a visual metaphor of desire and fantasy, reflecting an image of fleeing from the busy life — a compensation for reality. The real and the fantasy are thus placed together, making it difficult to determine which picture is the truth that I’m looking for, and whether notions of truth or desire are relevant.