Phaan Howng (she/her) is a Taiwanese American artist who creates lush, vegetal paintings and installations that examine the various historical perplexities within human-plant relationships, particularly humans' desire to control and tame nature. Her work is informed by paralleling ethnobotanical history and literature, ecological research,, with the sublime of science fiction blockbuster action movies and pop cultural trends. Howng uses camouflage, a modern war tactic, depicted in… more