How can we know whether what we are seeing is real or a dream- or if there is a difference between the two?  The famous Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi once told a parable of when, after waking from a dream of being a butterfly, he wondered if he were a butterfly dreaming of being a man.  With this artwork, I show that reality is relative and that you can never be sure which viewpoint represents reality.

 

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