Yan Wang Preston is a British-Chinese artist. Forest is a sequence of sixty-five images which explore the complexities, hopes and failures of constructed urban nature in China. Begun in 2010, the project delves into the practice of uprooting mature trees and replanting them across the country’s new cities. This photograph was made in Chongqing, China’s largest metropolis with a growing population of thirty million people. In 2008, Chongqing adopted the policy of building a ‘forest city’, leading to an intense period of uprooting and planting hundreds of thousands of trees. By documenting the developments of the transplanted trees in their new homes, as well as the recovering landscapes left behind, the Forest project raises urgent questions about migration and urbanisation, as well as our relationship with the natural world.