Lianjiang Zhu
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 Kaleidoscope  
2021
Acrylic on recycled plastic bottles



Inspired by Magritte's work "The False Mirror," where the human eye is merely a mirror of error and the visual image is only an image and not nature itself, one view is that the truth is not evident in the appearance of things, while the opposite view is that the truth is either hidden in the internal structure of the subject.
So how can we prove that the objects we see are their real nature?


The word "kaleidoscope" comes from the Greek combination of beauty and form, meaning beautiful shapes. In the Chinese context, it signifies a tool that can be used to observe myriad flowers. By combining the definitions of kaleidoscope from different languages, cutting and burning plastic bottles to change their shape to simulate the form of flowers, rather than the substantial real image. When viewed from the perspective of different animals' visual imaging rules, appear in different shapes and colors. When we look at these flowers with our vision, we become a kaleidoscope.