The White Maze is a large-scale colour photographic print depicting a horizontal field of delicately painted synthetic foliage. Each leaf is printed at one-to-one scale, giving the image a monumental presence. The foliage, blanketed in a powdery layer of white paint, has been stripped of specific markers of place, time, and ecology. Gesturing toward themes of erasure and dislocation, the work invites viewers to consider how landscapes have historically been identified, territorialized, aestheticized, and mythologized, particularly within the context of colonialism and national identity. The image draws on the compositional strategies of East Asian landscape painting; the result is a pictorial field that destabilizes spatial orientation and challenges fixed viewpoints.

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