xiaocong ge / leah

Acclimate, Assimilate came from ruminations on the phenomenon of international education. A Wardian case made of isomalt is left in the forest to decay and melt, leaving its contents—a lecture reader distributed by a European university, to decompose.  

In the months that follow, the weather, plants and animals in the forest left chemical and physical impacts on the book until it completely decomposed, symbolically negotiating the distance between Western philosophies and tropical realities.