The tradition of statues and monuments to great figures often attempts to resist the erosion of time by fixing a ‘sublime’ image in an immortal material. However, this effort to defy time is futile; even the greatest images will eventually be altered or forgotten by time.

Wang Changcheng attempts to accelerate this process by using unstable and easily dehydrated materials. He re-casts the images of great historical figures, artificially ‘frozen’ in time, using vegetables and fruits, placing them on drying trays to let them air-dry, dehydrate, gradually deform, and even collapse over time.