OKA9420 - Peach Blossom

This work specul;ates that Uji bombs (Bubonic Plague biological weapon) made in Malaya Singapore, by Imperial Japan, were likely tested in China during the occupation. Such bombs are filled with bubonic plague-infested fleas that had fed on contaminated rats.
 
Tropical weather condition of Malaya Singapore with a year-round constantly high temperature and humidity, offered good yield when farming for fleas. In other words, local tropical weather was used as a form of natural resource & weaponised.
 
Over a period of 6 days, our tropical temperature & humidity was captured using a thermohygrograph. The weather charts were analysed based on the ideal temperature (27 to 30ºC) and humidity (65 to 80%) for the farming of fleas. The results are then turned into a data-set to control a spray paint station. It varies its spray of black paint (duration and pressure), based on the data that has been compressed into 6 days of 30 minutes cycle. This process links it back to the destructive plague – Black Death.
 
Throughout Chinese literarily history, the Peach Blossom tree has appeared repeatedly in many great poems and idioms. The plant symbolises the arrival of spring and hope, longevity and love.

Media: Synthetic Peach Blossom plant, automated spray paint system, black solvent paint, glass vitrine
Dimensions: 70 (W) x 70 (D) x 210 (H) cm

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