In March 2020, a well-known virus swept the world and overnight, we hit the pause button on our lives. But as humans stopped in their tracks, the natural world began to change magically: the air was cleaner, the water was cleaner and animals began to thrive on a scale we hadn't seen in decades. When the epidemic first broke out, I was closed off at university and my bedroom was empty for over three months. One day my mother found a bird's nest on the balcony of my bedroom where birds were breeding but when I returned home from quarantine, the bird flew away again, never to return.

On 16 April 2020, 17 wild elephants began their migration north from Pu'er, Yunnan Province, China. During this migration, the wild elephant herd wreaked havoc along the way, destroying countless farmlands, houses, transport and road facilities, etc. But we did not harm them. Instead, they were supported with manual feeding and real-time drone monitoring along the way.

Through this project, I use collage as a medium to document the migration process of wild elephants and to explore why they suddenly migrate and how humans react to the migration of wild elephants.

Collage is an art-making technique used primarily in visual art but also in music, where art comes from the combination of different forms to create a new whole. By presenting information in different collage representations of pictures, figures and lines, I explore moments within the migration process allowing me to understand it more closely, and visualize disparate information.