After Nature
The Lived Landscapes
After Nature · Borderland Road Trips (China)
This field practice emerged through multiple road trips across approximately one-third of China’s border regions, visiting nearly one hundred villages over extended periods of travel. Moving through borderlands shaped by geography, climate, and political margins, the work engages with everyday life alongside people whose labor remains closely tied to land and environmental conditions.
Through conversations, observation, and sound-led documentation, the practice records how climate change, ecological stress, and cultural transformation are experienced at a local scale. Rather than focusing on spectacle or crisis imagery, the work attends to daily rhythms—farming, herding, fishing, building—and the quiet pressures faced by communities living at the edge of rapid environmental and economic change.
This material was developed into the After Nature series of short documentaries, combining sound, image, and field presence. The project approaches borders not as fixed lines, but as lived landscapes where environmental change, cultural memory, and survival intersect.
After Nature films:
https://www.youtube.com/@natureafter/videos
