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# Project Description Would it Hurt My Mom if I Sleep with Someone Else? Junxing Mai Summary Final work My name is Junxing Mai (Niko). I explore the tension between urban control and artificial nature through photography, installation, and floral composition. I collect failed Polaroids, dying flowers, and familiar scents to reconstruct emotional memories and question what beauty means in a designed world. My practice is a way of asking, not answering about nature, control, decay, and desire. My name is Junxing Mai (Niko). I explore the tension between urban control and artificial nature ... College School of Pre-Degree Studies Course Pre-degree: Online Graduation year 2025 'Would it hurt my mom if I sleep with someone else?' This question isn't just about sex-it's about responsibility, love, and the weight of cultural expectations on the individual. In East Asia, sex exists in secrecy, private yet inseparable from family obligations. A mother's love shifts from care to the quiet imposition of duty. This duty extends beyond the family, shaping personal identity and the unspoken continuation of tradition. In this diary, I attempt to reconstruct the model's memories of sexual awakening-the journeys of self-discovery, the moments of being watched, questioned, and made to reckon with desire. Final work In cities like Shanghai, green spaces are everywhere — but they are carefully designed, fenced, trimmed, and cleaned. This project explores the concept of artificial nature: nature that is no longer wild, but made to serve human comfort, guilt, or control. Through green-filtered Polaroid photography and installation ideas, Green Enough questions whether these environments are truly “natural” — or simply another layer of illusion. By placing my own body into these fake natural spaces, I reflect on how we, too, become part of this system: silent, shaped, and arranged. This project is not a solution — it is a quiet protest, and an open-ended question: Is this green enough? And for whom? Unsent Letter 'Unsent Letter' explores memory, family relationships, and the passage of time. It is a belated letter-an intimate dialogue with my father across time. Inspired by the DV footage he captured of me as a child, I respond to the unspoken emotions through scent, imagery, and performance art. This work is not merely an act of remembrance, but a process of understanding, responding, and coming to terms. Wilted & Blossom 'Wilted & Blossom' is a performance art project that uses bouquets as a medium to explore identity and self-perception. In an empty room, three bouquets are displayed in the following order: one in full bloom, one in bud, and one withered. Participants are free to choose the bouquet that resonates with them. This free process captures the participants' genuine choices and employs the bouquet as a metaphor to explore their underlying identity. Secret Space Secret Space is a mixed-media work combining installation, painting, and performance art. Within a quilt-constructed enclosure, I recreate my childhood attempt to escape my parents' quarrels. Yet, like light, sound seeps through, defying the barrier. Graffiti on the quilt captures fragments of memory, while sound fows through the space, exploring the permeability of sound, light, space, and memory-letting the past echo within the enclosure. Video Link: https://youtu.be/zllk_No8YVY?si=D2RRKNNykbVxUJhA Research and process Would it Hurt My Mom if I Sleep with Someone Else? Experiment Unsent Letter Experiment Share this project 'Would it hurt my mom if I sleep with someone else?' This question isn't just about sex-it's about responsibility, love, and the weight of cultural expectations on the individual.In East Asia, sex exists in secrecy, private yet inseparable from family obligations.</... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Conflict & Its Effects Places & Spaces Body Sexuality Identity Race
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