Forming a more recent extension of Qu Lei Lei’s hand series this picture is reflective of the global disinformation crises.

These hands are bound by a string of scripted code which translates , “opinion is free but facts are sacred”, a quotation from G.P. Chesterton. Its synonymous with a world that finds itself lost and under pressure having its information system now in chaos . Much like his other works linked with disinformation it’s also offering not just a message but a sense of longing for a resolution.

Three soldiers ancient Chinese, Iraqi Middle Eastern and American. From east to west from ancient to modern trascending the context - the universal posture of the soldier remains exactly the same  in history wherever and when ever you are in the world, the historical footprint echoes like a record on repeat.

In this painting, we find emotionless Terracotta Army soldiers standing in rigid rows, their faces blank and their bodies locked into identical postures. These figures reference the Terracotta Army, life-sized clay warriors created to accompany China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang (ruled 221-210 BCE) in death; discovered in 1974 near Xi’an, they are now preserved and displayed at the Terracotta Army Museum in Xi’an. In this artwork, a row of expressionless Terracotta Army soldiers, stands seemingly the same yet each holding differing individual features. They all stand as merely cogs in a bigger machine, deprived of their thoughts and locked into a systematised world. Yet we find in their midst one modern soldier, echoing them in an identical stance, reflective of a combined ancient and modern message.