The White Maze is a large-scale colour photograph depicting a field of delicately painted synthetic foliage. Each leaf is printed at one-to-one scale, giving the work a monumental presence. Covered in a powdery layer of white paint, the foliage is stripped of markers of place, time, and ecology. Part of an ongoing exploration of post-natural materials, the work employs plastic as a medium– a product of industrialization that mimics nature, while linking industrial systems to the historical erasure, dislocation, colonization, and aestheticization of landscapes and peoples. Drawing on the compositional strategies of East Asian landscape painting, the work destabilizes spatial orientation and challenges fixed viewpoints.

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