My name is He Huang (Isabella) and I come from Beijing, China. I majored in the Environmental Art Design in Beijing from 2013 to 2017. I have recently completed the Master of Art – Art in Public Space at RMIT. My intention is to draw more people's attention to current topics through the form of art, such as climate change and the environmental problems caused by the imbalance of our ecological environment. I am interested in how technology can convey the themes and ideas I work with to have resonance with audiences to think about the environmental problems we are facing now.

Project 1: Growth of Reflection, 2020

In 2020, Melbourne was almost in lockdown for a whole year due to the outbreak of Covid-19. Therefore I lived alone without my family and friends for a year. As I lived in the heart of Melbourne I was keenly aware of how quiet the previously noisy city had become in this year.

I was inspired by Olafur Eliasson's Ice Watch (2014). The title Growth of Reflection comes from the fact that you can understand it in many ways: Growth Reflection or Reflection Growth. I combine dead plants with dandelion seeds and make ice cubes to put in my window. The ice – representing plants, death, rebirth and time – contrasts with the cold urban background and records its melting process.

Project 2: Symbiosis, 2021

Symbiosis means a cooperative relationship. Just like my video work, the relationship between the city and nature is also a symbiosis. La Trobe Street–Swanston Street corner is a busy area in the heart of Melbourne and on my route from home to the studio. I continue to convey the problem of climate change and the meaning of symbiosis in the form of recording ice melting. This year I placed the ice on a busy street full of crowds of people, passing cars and a construction site that nobody knows when will finish. If you watch the video carefully you can find some unexpected surprises, such as the seagull and pigeon at the beginning of the film; they are curious to observe what food is in front of them at this moment. Just like we humans have infinite curiosity to explore or over-explore everything in our nature, but the seagulls and pigeons make the video a surprise. So, what has our overexploitation done to nature? Another interesting scene is that at the end of the film: a cleaner sweeps away the ice cubes. If it were not for this sudden removal I would have spent more than an hour waiting for the ice cubes to completely melt.