The series of paintings depicts natural landforms that Xu Zhen found on Google Maps that resemble Chinese landscape paintings. The artist uses the aesthetics of traditional Chinese painting to filter the digital landscape, reintroducing the "Qi" in nature, and expanding the perspective and methods of traditional Chinese landscape painting.
When searching in the digitized map, the terrain is not what you encounter in the real world, but as data on the screen. From the perspective of traditional Chinese painting, mountains and trees are not only physical forms but also symbols of "qi" and natural order. It's a harmony of two approaches to technology and cultural logic. The digital tool here is a means of discovering the form, which is then transformed through the ink work.
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