Dry Swimming Pool

By Ling Cui 

Painting & Graphic Design

The Dry Swimming Pool series draws inspiration from Japanese karesansui  (dry landscape gardens), a reimagined form of traditional waterscape design. The work reinterprets this concept as a Debordian "Society of the Spectacle," where viewers experience the sensation of floating and sinking while contemplating the transformations of the natural world. Created using the AI tool Midjourney, the artwork adopts a pointillism-inspired style to visualize its themes.