Sihan Guo’s practice constructs a landscape of techno-Gnostic fantasy. Echoing Deleuze’s theory of the Rhizome, the swirling, stem-like textures of the drips suggest an unregulated flow of energy across a rimless, de-centered structure of reality. Against this vessel-like, synapse-like, web-like backdrop of a dissolving landscape, a more figurative—though not strictly representational—layer emerges, with shapes that evoke something organic and visceral. Through her back-and-forth sculpting of paint and different treatments of surfaces, the orientation toward a human-less, subject-less, and collapsed vision of space denotes an object-oriented fantasy overriding any human perceptions. What pulls for attention, then, is the landscape dissolving in-between presence and absence, reality and virtuality.​