In my piece Soma Pill v.2, I utilise 3D modelling technique to create a virtual tablet, and video clips of different contents are used as its epidermal material. The tablet kept jiggling; the projected images are stretched, twisted and deformed along with movement. The background is composed of ever-changing colourful pixels and a low-pitched noise serves as soundtrack. The title of the work, Soma Pills, is inspired by a hallucinogen named soma in Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World. In the book, Huxley constructed a highly totalitarian imaginary future of human society. The World State has severed all links with the past, and while its populace supposedly possesses freedom and equality, everyone is in fact under uninterrupted monitoring. The society advocates the ethos of "Community, Identity, Stability", and purely sensual pleasure. Residents are encouraged to take soma in order to evade panic and pain, involving themselves in a fantasy imaginary world.

The multicoloured tablet carries perfect utopian worlds within it. I attempt to bring the association between spectacle in real life and soma in the fictional world, as the drug, just like spectacle, is akin to manufacturing illusion and false impressions to bring people comfort, warping their comprehension of the truth. The selected image materials that I use for the work’s background including the video recording of the grand military review in China. Here, the marching legs in the guard of honor attempts to make people think they must be excellent and powerful, but people will never realize the truth behind it. I don’t believe that the spectacle exists independently. It serves the power, and helps to make its mechanisms mysterious. Power and spectacle work in tandem in order to make people believe that the pre-arranged world they live in is a utopia.