Reimagined seafloor, AI-generated media
On my first visit to Vancouver, I was surprised to hear passersby speaking my mother tongue—Cantonese—with a mix of different accents. I felt a sense of surrealism walking through this unfamiliar city. This experience led me to reflect on the fluidity of the sea. As a result, I began this conceptual project to examine displaced identity through undersea exploration, using AI-generated media.
I turned my lens to the seafloors of Hong Kong and Vancouver, documenting the underwater landscapes. From my observations, Hong Kong’s seafloor is shallow and filled with rocky coral and reefs, while Vancouver’s is green and teeming with a wide variety of fish species.
To open up the question of ambiguous borders, I merged photographs of the two regions’ seafloors using an AI image generator. The AI generated new images based on the two sets of photographs. The result is intriguing: some parts of the images appear realistic, while others seem artificial and surreal.
This series opens up the following questions—Where is the border of the seafloor? What is manmade and what is natural? What is reality and what is a reimagined landscape?
This series will be exhibited at ACO Gallery in Hong Kong in 2026.