Certain social phenomena inspire this series in China, where parents use their children's awards and achievements as tools for self-glorification—proof of their own values, choices, and capabilities. In many cases, the children are pressured, coerced, or even treated as extensions of their parents' will, stripped of autonomy in the pursuit of these accomplishments.

These images prompted a question in me: at what point did these children lose their sense of self and soul, becoming empty shells displaying borrowed glory? Instead of celebrating the trophies and certificates, shouldn’t we pay more attention to the invisible weight and labour behind them?

In these works, the children's faces are deliberately obscured. By erasing their facial features, I hope to shift the viewer’s focus to the hollowed bodies and the piles of test papers—symbols of a process that often erases identity in the pursuit of external validation.