21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
Carport

As you can see, this is a garage that I found in a university in Shanghai, China, and the clever thing is that the projection of the tree outside the garage falls on the garage and it also becomes a tree, but the tree is made up of an image of itself and the garage. I think this reveals something about the possibility of an ecological civilization. First of all, with the reform of industrialization, our means of transportation has changed from manpower and horse-drawn carriages to steam trains, high-speed trains, and airplanes, but the most representative of our civilization is still the bicycle (including new energy electric vehicles). The tree in the second figure is a combination of natural trees and the carshed, a product of human civilization. This means that ecological thought and industrial, economic, and civilization development are parallel, and we can find the intersection of balance and common development in these seemingly contradictory objects. Ecology is the ecology of civilization, and civilization is the civilization of ecology. In the pattern of circulation and mapping, we can find the logic of the operation of ecological society and the future of mankind.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 10.2022
Date Uploaded: 10.2023
Photo Location: ShangHai, China
Copyright: © Xinxin Jiang