Environment protection for me is to involve in one’s surroundings in a friendly way. I believe that it is an artist’s responsibility to respond to the problems of the world and provide solutions for his or her society. To make this artwork, I collected pieces of waste wood and pieced them together and sculpted them. Both the crushed aluminum can and the recycled materials symbolize second-handedness, oldness and unwantedness; they reflect one another’s qualities. Through this inter-indication, I hope to emphasize the concept of “sustainable use.” I think that all materials/beings in this world, including as wood and trees, are to a certain extent renewable. As long as they are utilized properly, they are sustainable, too. The point is to strike a balance between use and renewal—and to hold an earth-friendly attitude when using these things. Although Assemblage Art of the mid 20th Century is no longer a trend, we are faced with a living environment as bad as the one back then. Excessive consumerism, omnipresent media monopoly, predominant ideologies, rocketing increase in urban wastes, a growing shortage of resources, rapid climate change…it’s even fair to say we are in a worse world. We must also admit that, although capitalism has endowed the human society with the highest productivity and the strongest spending power ever, the overworked consumerism that comes along has also widened the gap between mankind and things. With this artwork, I want to make viewers learn the truths of the world. I would like to show all those contradictions in a capitalist society, as well as how ridiculous those comsumerist ideologies are. I hope to encourage discussions and urge people to examine the relationship between mankind and things. These are my goals.