You can imagine yourself as a farmer living in the Middle Ages, weary after a week of hard labor and anxious that this year’s harvest might fail .
When the farmer enters the church, he lifts his gaze to the murals on the walls and listens to the priest’s words—scenes of creation that attempt to answer humanity’s deepest questions about life. With hands clasped in prayer, he seeks peace from God. That was his vision of the world, his way of searching for meaning.
Human beings have always sought to understand their relationship with the universe through the knowledge frameworks of their time. Religion once provided such a framework, offering order and comfort in the face of the unknown. In our era, science offers another way of seeing and understanding the world.
In 2014, I began to develop a fascination with science. Looking at the images of the world revealed by more than three centuries of scientific revolution, I felt as if I were witnessing the birth of a new creation myth: the expanding universe, the motion of stars, the origins and evolution of life across billions of years. From relativity, DNA, and the moon landing, to today’s artificial intelligence—this world is strange, complex, and wondrous, far beyond imagination.
Through my work, I long to respond to these vast images revealed by science, to transform them into creative visions that reflect the imagination and thought patterns of our time, and to reconsider the meaning of life itself.