Plant Trinity attempts to explain, from a non-human and religious perspective, the competitive or otherwise ambiguous relationship between humans and non-human species, and their fight to claim space from each other.

Plant worship exists in many religions: in Christianity, the passion flower represents the Trinity, while in Buddhism, the lotus flower signifies the soul’s rebirth. When believers are confronted with the growth and decay of plants, which they understand to be controlled by supernatural forces, they naturally develop value judgements.

The project explores religion as a ”linkage between self-existence and the unknown”. For many people, religion guides morals and behaviour. In the case of plants, we can see that they have a certain way of thinking and acting. For example, they repeatedly and persistently invade man-made structures in cycles and loops. The project tries to describe the survival of plants as a non-human religious discourse, through the trinity of symbiosis, expansion and cycle.

Plant Trinity is a shrine for plants. It is made entirely of natural elements, including twigs, fallen leaves, stones, shells, moss, etc., and contains the will of the plants. At the same time, it is also a candlestick. In human religion, lighting a candle often means communicating with another unknown world, but in this work, burning represents harm to the plant’s growth by human behaviour. The burning of the candle will subtly change the form of the shrine, the heat will deform the frame, the wax will cover the eroded surface and sometimes set the shrine on fire, carbonising it. But the lighting of the candle must be simultaneous with the growth of the plants, which represents a certain repetition and sequence, a never-ending cycle of the battle between the human and non-human for living space.