In the new society we live in now with multiple digital screens installed publicly, we have started to get more and more used to being surrounded digitally by well-presented ideas. We have now almost forgotten how it felt when we were surrounded by trees and nature in the urban area. We might not even have noticed that we are losing touch with nature, maybe indefinitely. This artwork treats digital installations as an art form that allow the audience to confront the digital realm and nature simultaneously, allowing a deeper reflection. It has created a local plant setting digitally that responds to real-time weather changes, sunlight direction, rain, and so forth, according to its own ecology through the exhibition period. Ultimately, it aims to spark conversation around more universal topics. In addition to providing a tribute to nature, the artwork examines our relationship to it.
Artist Ng Tsz-kwan graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1997 with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and obtained a Master's degree at Central Saint Martins, UAL, in 2000. His practice is devoted to electronic and video art, and he has exhibited locally and internationally. He also maintains a design practice, in which he applies interactive media design in the commercial and exhibition sectors, and explores the use of different media for integrated design solutions. He is the co-founder and creative director of yucolab. In 2007, Perspective Magazine commended him as one of 40 outstanding design professionals under the age of 40 in Greater China.