Stainless steel mirror deer sculpture, running forward, and embarking on a passionate dream journey

Run forward and pursue the passionate dream with the mirror deer!

Work name: "The Dream-chasing Story"

Creation year: 2018

Project location: Wuhan, China

Artwork material: Mirror stainless steel

Artist Dong Cheng uses the leaping deer shape to freeze the momentary dynamic of "running forward", creating an image of the perseverance of a dream-chasing young heart. The stainless - steel material endows it with a cold and sharp edge, symbolizing the sharpness of bravely confronting reality on the dream - chasing journey. However, the mirror reflection integrates the viewers' figures into the deer's body, implying that every ordinary person can become a "chaser of light".

Design concept of the work

As the "Steel City", Wuhan. The stainless - steel material is a tribute to the city's industrial heritage. The deer antlers are geometrically cut to reconstruct the traditional form, just as a song injects the classical rock spirit into modern arrangement, bursting out the original vitality in the cold and hard industrial sense. The mirror feature allows the viewers to face their own reflections directly, echoing the declaration in the song "I don't need to satisfy anyone, as long as I'm true to myself". The deer's body becomes the boundary between reality and ideal — when a person stands in front of the sculpture, their figure overlaps with the deer shape, meaning "seeing the true self in front of the dream".

Core artistic value

In the city, the gentle deer shape neutralizes the coldness of the buildings. On sunny days, the mirror reflects the sunlight like "a shower of stars", providing an entrance to poetry for urban people to briefly escape from reality, fulfilling the passionate call of the lyrics "Live hard and love hard". The millimeter - level seamless welding process transforms industrial precision into artistic eternity. The sculpture replaces traditional realistic carving with a minimalist mirror, rejuvenating the ancient symbol in the contemporary landscape, implying the urban people's redefinition of "fortune and happiness" — not only material abundance but also the pursuit of spiritual freedom.