This series made its debut at Bio-Circle 3, Dameisha, Shenzhen. The exhibition not only presented the six-chapter AI-generated animation but also featured a co-creation session, displaying clay marine spirits created by local children during an art workshop. These naive physical sculptures were "revived" via AI technology and integrated into the digital scene of the main work, "Birth of the Spirit Tree," becoming a warm bond connecting the virtual art with the real community and perfectly embodying the project's core concept of "Local Co-creation."
The Concept
This series presents a surreal mythological narrative of the local ecosystem in Dameisha, Shenzhen. The core concept revolves around a stream of life energy flowing between the mountain and the sea. The story begins at the pure source within the forest. As it flows seaward, the Lumen encounters remnants of human civilization, which are transformed into magnificent yet cold crystals that elegantly imprison its flow. Ultimately, a storm, symbolizing the immense power of nature, shatters and recomposes all elements, giving birth to a new, more majestic symbiotic entity from the remnants.
Utilizing a maximalist AI-fantasy aesthetic, the series explores nature's adaptation, alienation, and rebirth under the influence of human activity, seeking to envision a complex future symbiosis that transcends traditional binary oppositions.
The story begins in the deepest, most humid source of the mountain forest. Here, the energy is born, seeping from glowing mushrooms and moss like flowing liquid jade. This is life in its most primitive and pure form—the first pulse of the entire ecological heartbeat. The stream converges into a mountain stream, whose bed is made of shattered mirror-like crystals. The water reflects not the sky, but fragmented memories of the forest and sea, along with fleeting, unnatural distortions—the first fusion of pure energy with the outside world, hinting at changes to come.Upon merging with the sea, the energy reaches its zenith of vitality. This is a maximalist carnival of life—corals bloom like fireworks, and fish schools transform into flowing neon. It is the Lumen's most splendid moment, a grand ode to pristine nature before conflict arises.Remnants of human civilization intrude here, alienated into beautiful yet cold crystalline thorns that elegantly imprison the flowing Lumen. The life force is not extinguished but suspended in a magnificent, sorrowful stasis, revealing a grotesque, inorganic beauty.Nature's mighty force intervenes in the form of a typhoon. The storm's eye becomes a colossal, chaotic kaleidoscope, engulfing both primal natural elements and alienated crystal thorns, shattering and recomposing them all—not mere destruction, but a violent ritual of reshaping that makes no distinctions.After the storm, all returns to calm. A giant Spirit Tree erupts from the sandy soil, its roots and trunk intricately entwining and fusing with the crystal shards that once symbolized imprisonment, transforming them into nutrients for its growth. The Lumen finds a new form—no longer a flowing energy, but an upward-growing, more resilient, majestic existence.
