Stainless steel mirror deer sculpture, running forward, and running towards the passionate dream wit

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

Work title: "The Dream Chasing Record"

Creation year: 2018

Project location: Wuhan, China

Artwork material: Mirror stainless steel

Artist Dong Cheng freezes the instant dynamic of "running forward" with the leaping deer shape, shaping the struggling image of a young dream - chaser. The stainless - steel material endows it with a cold and sharp edge, symbolizing the sharpness of bravely confronting reality on the dream - chasing road. However, the mirror reflection integrates the viewer's figure into the deer's body, implying that every ordinary person can become a "light chaser".

Design concept of the work

As the "Steel City", Wuhan. The stainless - steel material pays tribute to the city's industrial heritage. The antlers reconstruct the traditional shape through geometric cutting, just as a song injects the spirit of classical rock into modern arrangement, bursting out primitive vitality in the cold and hard industrial sense. The mirror feature allows the viewer to face their own reflection directly, echoing the declaration in the song "As long as I can live up to myself, I don't need to satisfy anyone". 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, implying "seeing the true self in the face of dreams".

Core artistic value

In the city, the deer's gentle nature neutralizes the coldness of buildings. On sunny days, the mirror reflects sunlight like "a shower of stars", providing an entrance to poetry for urbanites 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, enabling the ancient symbol to regain new life in the contemporary landscape, implying the urbanites' redefinition of "fortune" — not only the abundance of material but also the pursuit of spiritual freedom.