installation, 3D render
A site-specific trail of footprints and a 3D speculative map of the Gobi Desert.
In collaboration with George Micah Kuhn.
丈量 (MEASURE)
A site-specific trail of footprints and a 3D speculative map of the Gobi Desert.
In collaboration with George Micah Kuhn.
2025
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Silicone foot casts, variable sizes. (Photography by 1:4:9 Art)
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Silicone foot casts, variable sizes. (Photography by 1:4:9 Art)
Speculative trails. (3D renders by George Micah Kuhn)
丈量 (Measure) is developed together with George Micah Kuhn during STRATA Project, a residency with 1:4:9 Art and an off-site exhibition in Toli County, Xinjiang, China. The site comprises a marble quarry and a Gobi terrain that once lay beneath an ancient ocean.
Taking ‘measure’ as both method and metaphor, the work consists of a series of silicone foot casts morphing into a half-human-half-gazelle creature’s footprints along the Gobi Desert, accompanied by 3D renders of the full 20-kilometre-long speculative trail across the landscape. The footprints depict an attempt to map the site, which fails to exhaust it but is absorbed into the terrain itself through acts of presence, mimicry, and drift. As industrial measurements, units, and technics falter or decay, the body becomes the sole instrument: patrolling the terrain barefoot, imitating the endemic animal’s territorial logic.
At last, the creature’s footprints end at the edge of the quarry, as if gazing uncertainly into the uncharted pit.
This collaborative work is a site-specific extension of elements in both artists’ previous practices. Flo uses half-foot-half-hoof sculptural forms to conjure mythical absence. George researches animals, biomes, and Borgesian cartography in his 3D renders and animations. Here, the artist duo choose to multiply and transform their shared practice into a process — an action on site — while the human and non-human, the mapped and unmappable, begin to collide.
Exhibition:
STRATA Project (Group site-specific residency and exhibition)
2025.8 - 1:4:9 Art, Toli County, Xinjiang, China
Taking ‘measure’ as both method and metaphor, the work consists of a series of silicone foot casts morphing into a half-human-half-gazelle creature’s footprints along the Gobi Desert, accompanied by 3D renders of the full 20-kilometre-long speculative trail across the landscape. The footprints depict an attempt to map the site, which fails to exhaust it but is absorbed into the terrain itself through acts of presence, mimicry, and drift. As industrial measurements, units, and technics falter or decay, the body becomes the sole instrument: patrolling the terrain barefoot, imitating the endemic animal’s territorial logic.
At last, the creature’s footprints end at the edge of the quarry, as if gazing uncertainly into the uncharted pit.
This collaborative work is a site-specific extension of elements in both artists’ previous practices. Flo uses half-foot-half-hoof sculptural forms to conjure mythical absence. George researches animals, biomes, and Borgesian cartography in his 3D renders and animations. Here, the artist duo choose to multiply and transform their shared practice into a process — an action on site — while the human and non-human, the mapped and unmappable, begin to collide.
Exhibition:
STRATA Project (Group site-specific residency and exhibition)
2025.8 - 1:4:9 Art, Toli County, Xinjiang, China