Archive of Fragility
A Digital Reflection on Botanical Survival and Human Entanglement
Multi-screen, Video, Digital Archive. 2025Tools:
Tripo AI, TouchDesigner, After Effects, Premiere.
This multi-screen installation brings together two types of orchids:
those classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List,
and those mass-produced for everyday consumption in supermarkets.
Through data-driven particle simulations and photographic grids,
the work explores different forms of botanical fragility—
ecological, cultivated, and ethical.
Endangered species are rendered as dissolving digital structures.
Their forms are shaped by conservation data.
Supermarket orchids, by contrast, are presented in looping image archives—
carefully grown, standardised, and often short-lived.
Archive of Fragility does not offer a binary of natural versus artificial, or victim versus culprit.
Instead, it presents two kinds of orchids—
Both fragile, but shaped by different histories, systems, and intentions.
It invites viewers to recognise how humans participate in shaping the conditions of life—
through care, through design, and through desire.
This is not a critique, but a quiet exposure:
of how deeply we are entangled with the lives we try to preserve,
and with those we barely notice fading.