"People of Different Race Look-Alike in Blue" is a series of drawings presenting the portrait of political figures which I found on the news from the online press media. The blue paint of ultramarine blue, a substitute of the pigment Lapis Lazuli, which is traditionally an expensive pigment used in the royal or other important figures during early Renaissance, is used to depict the human faces. Chemistry advancement implies the enlightenment of the western countries but seemingly cannot change the hierarchy structure in our modern society. The fresh colour is a blended pink, which is named by the white people but obviously representing merely a part of people skin tone. The juxtaposition of royal colour, traditional fresh tone and the political figures is intended to challenge the idea of equality in social advancement today. 
My work also tries to explore the nature of oil-based pink colour and the water-based blue. The hybrid of the two opposite natures of paints creates tension or special relationship between two and implies vague cognition. 

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