Time as Material: Which Year is the Drawing For?

A series of images showing the same plot of land in different years. Year one: bare soil with sparse small seedlings, covered with straw and bamboo stakes. Year five: pioneer tree species have grown to three or four meters, and shrubs have started to appear under the forest. Year fifteen: trees have formed a forest, canopies are beginning to connect, and shade-tolerant ferns and ground cover are present under the forest, while the early supporting bamboo stakes have rotted away. The same perspective, the same composition, only time is different. Avoid: only depicting the state at the time of completion, having the exact same plant species in all three periods, ignoring the disappearance of support and protection facilities, depicting the later stages as a neat artificial forest.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組同一塊地在不同年份的樣子。第一年是裸露的土與稀疏的小苗、覆蓋著稻草與竹樁;第五年先驅樹種已經長到三四米,林下開始有灌木;第十五年喬木成林,樹冠開始接合,林下是耐陰的蕨類與地被,早期的支撐竹樁已經腐爛消失。同一個視角、同一個構圖,只有時間不同。避免:只畫完工當下的狀態、讓三個時期的植物種類完全相同、忽略支撐與保護設施會消失、把後期畫成整齊的人工林。