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The Spectacle of The Earth Mother

2021.20

It is a behavioral experimental image that deconstructs the female body in dance and reconstructs it into a virtual Chinese landscape.
Technology has taken us away from nature, turning it into a social "landscape" to be watched and consumed. In the information age, our 
cognition of the primitive nature has become a mental image, which is separated from the physical reality, and has become a kind of 
"retro" imagination based on culture. Mother Earth is one of the oldest anthropomorphic figures, her pregnant body symbolizing the 
infinite life and inexhaustibility of the earth. When it is used in the field of environmental protection, the powerful rhetoric makes nature 
lose its essence, which intensifies the "landscaping" of nature and people's escape from reality. Constructed representations, overlaid with 
reality, become new realities.
This work uses digital media to compare consumerism's use of the female body with its use of anthropomorphism on the earth. Reviving 
ancient philos

© 2023 by Roxie Ren.

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