Panorama of the New World
2021

The long scroll is divided into three sections, depicting scenes of production, social activities and dwelling in the world of lizardmen from left to right, with the creatures enacting various behaviours in different environments. Like observing the lizards in the feeding box, the viewer of the painting sees a slice of this fantasy world through the image and peers into how that world works.
In the world that I have constructed, the lizardmen have gained a high level of intelligence. They have undoubtedly gained dominance, and the low-intelligence mammals that lost the battle for resources have become their slaves. The lizards worship and believe deeply in order, technology and science, just like some scientistic humans. As ironically as reality, the lizards live an orderly and prosperous life on the surface but hide underground what they selectively ignore and cannot control technologically. Therefore, I want to show a double world divided into surface and underground.
Medium: colour pencils and pastels on paper
Size: 2452×594mm




