Total Dominion Uninterrupted

This body of work documents the rapidly changing Taiwanese landscape. Specific locations were chosen based on where destruction and development co-exist more intimately. These locations include industrialized areas close to sensitive coastal environments as well as rapidly expanding building sites, which are encroaching on patches of wild turf; housing micro ecologies. These last standing ‘undeveloped’ corners serve as refuge to indigenous insect, bird and reptile species.

I document these spaces, structures and high tech developments with low-tech equipment such as pin-hole cameras and a mobile darkroom based on the concept of a ‘wet-plate-wagon’ from 1851. This low-tech choice of documentation serves to amplify our present struggles with digital security, online privacy and our rapidly diminishing anonymity. The installation as a whole aims to trigger a self reflection on how we inhabit the spaces we occupy daily, as well as our and the people we adhere to’s violation of the natural surroundings in order to gain complete dominion and large profits.