Wei Weng

About the project

I apply the craft of ancient plastic (lacquer is the earliest polymer used by humans) to transform the future of consumer waste materials, and document the journey of these new relics.

Any countryside, any building site, any farm fences will do to host these transfigurations. In this light-hearted approach to absorb the human impact of Anthropocene, I travel with a small box of lacquered objects and a compact camera.

The journey of Conjuring Black Sun represents the multitude of my sensibilities, as a writer who is rebellious, as a lacquer maker who is slow in her harvest, as a photographer who is a thrill seeker. All on board and out on the road, plastic gods beckon and egg clusters lead me astray. Without decorative details, these lacquered bottle gods and egg clusters simply bare their black lacquered skin, reflecting a black sun shinning brightly on earth.