This piece is about my addiction to insect taxidermy, I have a strong love of particular smells, according to, for example, the smell of dead insects and desiccants. This is another "pure nature" to me as well.

My addiction

This work is my interpretation of the union of human and nature, showing a pregnant woman with a human embryo but giving birth to beetles at the same time. Many people hate and fear insects, but I love the combination of the sacred and what most people fear, which is the real 'nature' to me.

Maternity

"A joy funeral" mean "喜丧" in the traditional sense refers to the death of the elderly without disaster and disease, but I keep thinking that if people are old, their appearance and physical function are not as young as they are, and they have many troubles with the growth of age for no reason, so why is it "喜" （joy）?

Therefore, the work "喜丧" is my understanding of death, even a good wish. The mainline's meaning and expression are pushed from the lower right corner to the upper left corner.

The mourners, memorial tablets, altar, white sails, and blown paper money are in the lower right corner. Her vision is only limited to the root of the tree. At the same time, her world and fantasy are separated by the tree. The posture of the three gods connects their bodies, indicating a cycle in which the material absorbed by the tree roots from the ground rises, blooms, and connect to the ground again. At the same time, it is a person's life - from nothing to blooming, returning to the earth. The sad expression in the mirror in the goddess's hand on the far left is that I have observed many people, including myself, are always sad when trying to think about death, even on a national level. The fish with a human face in the middle is the cycle and dependence of water and life - breaking away from the water but returning to the water.
The giant's face on the left, with cold skin, was a woman who began to die. Her tears and last breath turned into another form of life - what she wanted to become and become again; The image of boating in the lower-left corner comes from ancient Greek mythology. When people die, they will cross the Styx River by boat. In the middle of her forehead is the exit of her soul. It becomes a moth. Many older people in China say that people will become giant butterflies or moths to visit their relatives after death. However, I think death is just a random point in the infinite cycle, neither the beginning nor the end, so there is nothing to worry about. Therefore, the death described as "喜"（joy） is not as good as turning into a bird and eating the concerns.

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