Yan Wang Preston: With love. From an Invader.
A pink love heart shrines on the industrial wasteland of Burnley, Lancashire. A thriving, blossoming rhododendron bush that is seen as invasive, guilty of threatening the treasured British landscape with their beloved oak trees. By imagining a landscape of disappeared oak and expanding rhododendron, the paper investigates the politics associated with the ideas of wildness and invasiveness within the biosphere. It attempts to re-imagine national landscape (in this case, England) in which weeds, invasive plants and unwanted nature are accepted and integrated like the dead oak.
