Urban Chaos  ,  2020-2021




In 2019, I moved to London from China. As a photographer, I began to observe the area near my residence by taking photos . For a period of time, I could often hear a sound of an animal that I had never heard before at night. I was very curious about this sound so that I decided to go out to find the source of this sound at one night. Not long after I walked out of my house a fox ran past me and disappeared into the darkness, and I realized that the cry must have come from the fox. I was surprised to see such wild animals as foxes in city, which would never happen in my hometown. During the next few weeks I spent a lot of time looking for foxes outside at night. However, foxes are not seen every times , so I decided to made observations about the environment in which foxes live.

After a period of observation, I found that in the area where the fox lives, that is, in the suburbs of the city, a very subtle relationship has been formed between nature and human order. Suburb is a transitional zone between urban and wild environments, the space here was being controlled by human beings to a certain extent but not fully monitored as in urban areas. In such an environment, the plant has taken on a unique status, from a macro view their growth area were limited by human, but if a closer observation will find it more similar to their growth state in the natural environment .They combined together with artificial objects (fence, barbed wire fences, railings, walls, etc.) to a kind of strange state.
Wild animals in this area also move away from areas and times of intensive human activity, mostly traveling at night and breeding in hidden greenery. This state allowed me to feel a kind of adversary relationship between wild chaotic natural forces and human order, and this kind of confrontation is the core content of my project.

I've always had a degree of skepticism about the rationality of the strict order that humans have established on this planet, and I hope this project will provide some answers to that question.