Timur Si-Qin’s work often explores the concept of ‘New Peace’, the proposal of a post-secular faith that re-establishes the sacredness of nature in a contemporary globalised, and technologically saturated world. Through New Peace, individual works aggregate into an ecosystem of signifiers and distributed meaning systems, seeding new narratives for possible relationships with the natural world in the 21st century. Si-Qin’s New Peace series, which he began in 2016, is an evolving exploration of these ideas that astutely employ the visual language of mass-media, branding and marketing  psychology. Using hyper-real renderings of wilderness merging with the impression of a familiar yet undefined logo, Si-Qin’s work challenges traditional Western dualisms between nature vs. culture, human vs. non-human, and the organic vs. the synthetic.

For this Banner Series Commission Si-Qin has worked with an AI image generator to create the latest iteration of this ongoing series. In Tide Patterns (New Peace Diptych), two coastal formations appear marked by the New Peace logo, embedded into the contours of land and sea. This logo is part of an evolving visual language that proposes a new kind of spiritual and symbolic relationship with the Earth. Rather than an imposition onto the landscape, it emerges from it — a sign not to dominate nature, but to revere it and recognize ourselves as a fundamental extension of it.

Timur Si-Qin, Tide Patterns (New Peace Diptych), 2025.

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