In this work, Jingyan Ding continues his profound exploration of perception and reality by placing a self-consuming flame on an endless cyclical platform, symbolizing the impermanence and dissolution of existence. The flame suggests that everything is inevitably moving toward nothingness, reflecting how we search for meaning in a constantly changing, endlessly cycling world.

Through the medium of oil painting, Ding employs a visual language of flow and transformation, allowing viewers to sense the blurred boundaries between self and world, between nothingness and existence. The presence and disappearance of the flame reveal the transient and impermanent nature of all things, prompting reflections on whether our identities and perceptions are merely fleeting sparks in an eternal cycle, and whether the world we perceive is, like the flame, always moving toward nothingness.