Beautiful Regenerative Fires explores humanity’s dual role in the cycles of ecological destruction and renewal. It asks what becomes of our shared reality when technology attempts to mirror the living world. The works, digital paintings printed on organic sailcloth, are inspired by 3D scans of native plants and an immersive VR experience inspired by text by Sarah Kain Gutowski. Each glitch in the scanning process becomes a fissure where the artificial falters and the wild world seeps through—reminding us that regeneration cannot be simulated, only nurtured. Within the installation, viewers step into a radiant terrain of the illusion of a future planet, where beauty flickers between decay and rebirth, and the possibility of a truly regenerative future begins to take root.

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Curator Statement by Flounder Lee

This exhibition imagines futures grown through care, collaboration, and curiosity rather than extraction or control. Regeneration is treated as lived practice, not simulation. Technology is neither villain nor savior here. It is simply a tool we shape through attention and intention, capable of supporting repair when held with humility and responsibility.

With co-futurist and Solarpunk thinking, the work rejects singular fixes or heroic narratives. Livable futures come from collective effort, reciprocal relationships, and staying present with what is already changing around us. The fractures and glitches are not mistakes to erase. They are reminders that growth often comes through interruption, that systems can shift, and that life keeps trying.

This exhibition does not offer escape or nostalgia. It asks us to stay with the world we have and commit to building fairer, more resilient ways of living on it, together.

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