''Golden City'', 2019 Abstract acrylic and mixed media on canvas 30''×30''

The project started in December 2017 in New York and finished in April  2019 in New York, and was exhibited in Novado Gallery in April-May 2019. 

When new technology comes out we purchase the new and discard the old. What is the value of those discarded technologies? Is it garbage? And should be buried in the landfill. Or does it still have value? What is the environmental cost of landfilling those devices? These questions inspired me to create Golden City with used landfilled computer parts. How to understand Value? I thought the value generate only when you care about it. The thought related me to started to think about the Value between technology and ecology. Nowadays, AI already into our lives everywhere, but we still need to evoke much more attention on solutions to the environment. In the future, smart life is not just to wear VR glasses to escape from reality. We are not able to live in a virtual world with environmental pollution, electronic wastes, abandoned resources. so I want to ignite people's environmental consciousness by giving a new life to those discarded parts. The Golden Life!

Artist: Arlene Sun, Curator: Dandi Gu, Academic Advisor: Zi, Photographer: Echo, Dylan