Miaozi Li
Farmer in MA Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art.
Savage in art nature organization, Green-kid (Bibi&Miaozi).
Committed to creating works of art related to nature, wild performative methods and healing.
Miaoqi Li
When I enter nature
There seems to be another space
Plant insect wind
It seems that they are all turned into existences of healing life forms
I seem to grow with them
Became a natural human
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When humans give up their dwellings, abandoned lands are taken over by nature. The shocking growth of plants, the fields submerged by nature, freed from any human control; I wander in these spaces as if wandering under the veil of Isis, the goddess of nature, and I perceive healing and calm. Here the natural plants of the abandoned land are deeply attractive to me. When the vitality of nature grows out of the broken buildings, I take/understand it as a metaphor. Nature seems to be unrestricted and the fusion and equality that exists in the wasteland gives me new hope.
I want to think about the future, explore more nature projects as a Green-kid, find new ways to connect with nature as much as possible, break through the boundary between nature and humans and promote green covering the planet.
Timeline
Let the green cover your heart
Canal documentary –
this video is dedicated to everyone who helped with this project.
Planting Diary
Planting record
There are many small abandoned ‘wastelands’ in the city, scattered like rubble in its corners, which can be called residual spaces, usually communal and located next to spaces with a fixed function. These exist outside the boundaries of organized social space, have no intended use and often lack traditionally attractive features. In the absence of officially formulated uses for abandoned spaces such sites seem to have an ambiguous identity.
My interest is to intervene in the transformation of this land using planting as an intervention to foster a relationship between the inhabitants of the area and the site. I set myself the task of asking how people would react if a small part of their controlled urban environment was allowed to revert to something resembling untended wilderness. My intention is to provoke questions around the ownership of the land through guerrilla gardening.