Han Bing

Honours

For Anthropology of Water, I visited rivers in multiple parklands in Melbourne, documenting their forms and surrounding ecologies by making photographs, videos and sound recordings. Alongside my outdoor meanderings, I created drawings as visual reflections of my life experiences during this period.

Inspired by Chinese artist Ma Yuan’s Water Album (1212 AD), I question the role of taxonomy in the context of Western modern science through the cataloguing of water, a formless being. In my drawings I reference cave painting, cartography and mapping to enquire about the limits of languages, and re-consider the assumed division between humans and nature.