All gardens are a form of imitation of the actuality of nature. Within them, arranged stones metaphorically articulate the mountains in a constructed landscape. In our work, four carefully placed stones form a rockery 假山, of fake mountains – mystical scholarly rocks in the classical Chinese garden analogy.

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The four mountains are Meta-morphs. Each is made from natural limestone, carved by industrial-scale robot arms based on a 3D-scanned Chinese Scholarly Rock. Each explores the tension between form andaura, man-made objects of perfection and complex, chaotic forms of nature. They are a fabricated metamorphosis of the original emerging through tooling marks – unfinished striations of the fabrication forming a discourse of technology as expression of thebrush in the landscape painting. The Meta-morphs are mathematical processes in computer-generate dgeological formations. They are “emerging” sculpted reductions of the original scanned, articulating the Gestalt within the found and computational – bridging the traditional with the contemporary.