In 2022, Du Guan Contemporary Art Space, in collaboration with Yueyang Art Museum, agreed to help SSG realise the project on a grand scale as part of the Art in the Fields Reed festival, Junshan Island, Yueyang, China. A year latter it arose form the grounds of the historic Dong Ting lake.
Twelve platonic forms, building blocks, lie scattered across a field, the site of SSG's monumental Playground of Building Blocks. Towards the centre of their installation, a ten-meter-high structure precariously towers upwards, made of what appear to be four frames that threaten to collapse at any moment, like a tower of cards. SSG first envisaged Playground as a response to the 75th anniversary of Dada artist Kurt Schwitters's death. Their original Playground of Building Blocks and a proposal to site it in the grounds of The Merz Barn were featured in the 2021 exhibition Speculative Pavilions at The Merz.
In 2022, Du Guan Contemporary Art Space, in collaboration with Yueyang Art Museum, agreed to help SSG realise the project on a grand scale as part of the Art in the Fields exhibition at Dongting Lake, Junshan Island, Yueyang, China. Playground, for SSG, reflects our modern-day plight: "we live in a world subject to the alarming effects of change on climate and many other things. We seem on the brink of disaster, and the scattered building blocks might be seen as remnants of a broken past." Yet, for SSG, Playground offers a new game—not an exterior game, but one for the viewer to engage with and become part of; a game through which they may create a fresh perspective on the old world. As SSG explained in an interview at the time, "If you rethink it all and think of playing this game, you can rethink these building blocks and how you want to play," creating new becomings with the world through the playful interaction of people,  art and nature.
The surrounding natural landscape enhances the piece's themes of fragility and playfulness, integrating the work into its environment and deepening its connection with viewers. The twelve scattered blocks are both contemplative and interactive, inviting visitors to explore, reflect, and play, offering a physical and metaphorical engagement with the unstable yet generative world around them.
