Images of roomspace, bookhelf, and readers always appeare in Guan Yong's paintings, seemed at first blush as the substantial matrers and meanings of his artwork, not just any symbols at all.
However, As colors and strokes are paling up layer by layer, the whole image start to trace back to it's origin from reality.
Suddenly, the whole image fade away, the rouge and paints which were peeled off are now becoming an alternative focus.
The remaining rouge and paints thus become the focus to viewers, and this is the way how viewers' focus switch from subjects and "remaining objects", roaming and wandering from focus to out-of-focus...