Dou Wei, is an artist whose creative endeavors span painting, installations, film, and ceramic sculpture. Over the past five years, Dou's installations and film have explored the concept of nature as a transcendent phenomenon, characterized by both uncontrollability and fluidity, as well as the non-functional attributes of extension and diffraction as manifestations of the natural world. In recent works, Dou's focus lies within the realms of painting. Her artworks seamlessly integrate a plethora of man-made objects based on organic materials, including but not limited to wood carvings, jade, stone, brass, taxidermy, religious figurines, and relics. These objects are stretched, distorted, or magnified in part or as a whole, resulting in entirely new, blurred boundaries within the realm of artificial imagery. Born in China and graduated from the Experimental Art Department of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts(CAFA) in 2021, earning MFA. Currently residing and working in K'jipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Dou continues her artistic practice in her studio. Through personal understanding of manmade objects and nature, she explores and expresses emotions and imagination.