‘Humanscape’ in Geopoetics- Diagnoses of Reclaimed Landscapes is practice-based artistic research which employs diagnostic methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine (“Watching, Listening, Asking, and Feeling”) to represent artificially manufactured landscapes. By applying multi-sensory perspectives of “seeing”*, a new terminology ‘Humanscape’ is created and represented through visual language and with my “earth writing” experiences inspired by geopoetics studies (Kenneth White, 2003).

The exploration is rooted in my intimate and intuitive walks in the coastal polders reclaimed from the Bohai Sea in my home city Tianjin, China. Through intervening in humanly regulated environments, the artworks hope to explore the boundary and equilibrium between ‘Humanscape’ and nature evolution.