Human beings have increasingly considered themselves the noblest of all creatures in the world. Correspondingly we have produced various beliefs, and made up all sorts of glory or maxims. Those thus produced or made up were constructed on an unfair basis at the beginning; and many beliefs in the name of love had gradually become pure chicken-soup-for-the-soul, which we love to disseminate yet never practice. For the only thing we do not believe in is life itself. So absurd a joke it is.

To live on, an unimpeachable belief of all creatures, is a prerequisite for everything in life. A maxim in the Bible reads: "A live dog is better off than a dead lion." More often than not, human beings do not trust their own thoughts; they must count on something else, something seemingly more solid, even if in fact it violently contradicts itself. For it seems safer to thank god than to thank ourselves.
- Li Wei

*image (left)
© Li Wei
courtesy of the artist and Gallery Yang