By 2030, 25 percent of the global workforce will be fully digital, meaning one in four jobs can soon be done from anywhere on earth, the World Economic Forum recently reported.
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Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
28 July 2025
With this new creation, Liu turns our gaze back to earth, exploring the existential solitude and quiet observation of these aging machines as metaphors for diasporic longing, technological obsolescence and the search for connection and purpose.
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