​Date Created: 2024
Dimensions: 3 x 3 x 0.6m
Medium: Wires
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Prospect and Refuge draws from Jay Appleton's Prospect-Refuge Theory, exploring humanity's preference for spaces that balance openness for surveying potential threats and shelter for safety. The work abstracts natural landscapes through wire mountains, presenting them in a gallery setting to reflect on our evolving relationship with nature.
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The artwork embodies the duality of the sublime—awe and fear coexist as viewers experience the overwhelming scale of the structures while maintaining a sense of refuge in the gallery space. It symbolizes humanity’s paradoxical relationship with nature, where we both shape and depend on it. By situating the theory within a contemporary discourse, the work challenges perceptions of landscapes and how the sublime is mediated by civilization and modern contexts.
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My first inspiration of using wires to represent my brushstrokes. From then on, I started experimenting with wires to create my mountains.
Process of setting up my work: Lasso-ing the fishing line onto the ceiling beam, instead of using the ladder to fasten the string on the beam.
*Close-up
*Setting up
From afar, the form of the mountains become more obvious, compared to standing next to it.