Zhuangzhou Dreamt of Butterfly

2020

Pastel pencil, acrylic, oil pastel, heat shrinkable piece, mix media

42 x 60 cm / 57 x 70 cm / 45 x 45 cm

This work depicts my understanding and thinking about famous Chinese philosophical allusions. Zhuangzhou Dreamt of Butterfly talked about Zhuangzi’s reflection of self-existence after he dreamed of becoming a butterfly. Such a dreamy state resembles a confusion of humanity itself: what is the form of our existence? Is the world we perceive real? I think the reason for the blurring of the boundary between dream and reality is that in life I sometimes feel the emptiness and lack of reality as the meaning of life has not been found and the question "Who am I" cannot be answered. Finally, this allusion causes me to think about the question of "who am I" and pushes me to find out the meaning of my life, to find the meaning that makes me no longer feel floating in the air and keeps my feet on the ground.