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Ancient Equipoise

Chinese ink and water-based mediums on paper

This series sets out to imagine primordial plant life when they first emerged. We were never there to witness their first growths, their first relationships, their challenges, their successes, and the adaptations that took place and evolved over time. It was a time we can never go back to, a place lost - a lost paradise. This sense of lost is a constantly recurring phenomenon, a condition that is inextricably connected to change.  Many factors determine how things change and develop, and human intervention being one of many. In these series, I indulge in imagining the close relationship between the various clusters, types and forms of plants, in terms of existing as individual entities yet symbiotically interwoven with and into each other, providing nutrients, shelter, and certain conditions to occur to enable their co-existence. How can we learn to appreciate this relentless will to exist and thrive, in a world shaped by recurring lost paradises?

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