Gaia, how are you today?

We’ve worked hard to shut nature out of our insulated and air-conditioned homes. Only some nature remains in the easily manageable and safe terracotta pot. Yufei Gao 3D-printed a collection of 92 terracotta pots to reflect on the relationship between technology and nature. Each pot is designed using a day's worth of weather data. The more the temperature, humidity and wind speeds diverge from their averages, the more the pot’s shape is abstracted and distorted. On a particularly stormy day, the pot collapses in on itself. This way, the extremely precise 3D printer has to surrender to the chaos of Gaia. The collection of pots reminds us that nature is not submissive or unchanging, but chaotic and unyielding.