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My thesis collection is called “ Illusory Deception”.

It is an attempt to provoke the deliberate misinterpretation of subsumed objective perceptions. In the process of rejecting ostensibly indisputable realities, banality coalesce with irrationality and transcends into a new existence.

Confucius once said “所信者目也，而目犹不可信；所恃者心也，而心犹不足” (one trusts what he sees, but his eyes are especially deceiving; one follows his hearts, but the heart alone is not enough for trusting). Inquiring beyond the well-accepted daily familiarities is both challenging and daunting. There is a tendency to surrender to the most natural perceptions of apparent nature. This means the denial of surface-level reality requires one to betray what one’s senses repeatedly affirms. Artistic illusions achieves the fundamental necessity to overcome rationality by ingeniously misleading our senses through series of visual distortions. They are unruly and difficult to accept, but nevertheless irresistibly charming.