This installation consists of 300 figurines in the image of Li himself being
engulfed by an octopus. He has chosen the octopus as his companion from the
animal world because it shares his will of survival. The octopus has to keep on
moving to keep alive, and its motion and colour constantly change until it dies.
Li compares his creative career to an octopus, since he has had to make
continuous changes to his identity and design expression. He thinks that
humankind needs breakthroughs and critical self-evaluation to evolve. Likewise,
his design career needs to never stop morphing in order to achieve success.
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