NEW WORLD ORGAN

“The only lasting truth Is Change.”

— Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

In my version of the future, people choose to change themselves to adapt to their environments and new homes - alien planets, the seabed or life underground. The role I have set for myself is that of a future Chinese biological scientist and organ plastic surgeon, a fiction that overlaps with my real identity. My future organs are a fusion of Chinese medicine and a Taoist understanding of the human body, seeking balance with the universe’s energy as both these schools of thought encourage. This idea of human organism modification echoes that of the Shaper, a futuristic race of humans skilled in cross-species genetic engineering, from the science fiction novelette Swarm (1982) by Bruce Sterling. 

Based on stem cell and genetic technologies currently being developed, my project is not just about art but speculates what can be achieved in the future.

“The only lasting truth Is Change.”

— Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

In my version of the future, people choose to change themselves to adapt to their environments and new homes - alien planets, the seabed or life underground. The role I have set for myself is that of a future Chinese biological scientist and organ plastic surgeon, a fiction that overlaps with my real identity. My future organs are a fusion of Chinese medicine and a Taoist understanding of the human body, seeking balance with the universe’s energy as both these schools of thought encourage. This idea of human organism modification echoes that of the Shaper, a futuristic race of humans skilled in cross-species genetic engineering, from the science fiction novelette Swarm (1982) by Bruce Sterling. 

Based on stem cell and genetic technologies currently being developed, my project is not just about art but speculates what can be achieved in the future.