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Artist Name: Yujia Guo
Title: Two Future
Medium: Digital
Year: 2020
Artist Statement:
Have you ever imagined the future of our planet? Here are two futures in my imagination:
The earth has enough resources for everyone, but as a result of the population explosion, residential buildings are getting taller and taller, even breaking through the atmosphere.
Land without nutrients cannot be cultivated and beautiful, there is only toxic waters. Full of flowery but hallucinating miasma.
The dove, a symbol of hope, flew into the universe to kill itself, a metaphor for the contrast between life and death. Colour inspired by an oil spill