In this work, Jingyan Ding turns his attention to the reflection of plants on the surface of water, using this fragile image as a metaphor to question the authenticity of existence. The reflection hovers between substance and illusion: is what we see a genuine presence, or merely a fleeting mirage? By portraying the indistinct interplay between the plant and its watery counterpart, the work destabilises the viewer’s sense of what is real and what is unreal.

Ding constructs a visual space where the tangible and the intangible, the authentic and the illusory, continuously overlap. The work invites viewers to reflect on whether our perception of reality is grounded in truth, or whether, like a reflection on water, it is always a fragile surface subject to distortion and dissolution.