The “Torso” series is a group of paintings that take pears as their subject. Using fruits or flowers as metaphors for the human body is a very common artistic device in art history — perhaps this is also a common way of thinking within an anthropocentric cognitive framework. Edward Weston, Robert Mapplethorpe, Georgia O’Keeffe… created many similar works. In those works, the literal subject is the plant, and the metaphorical subject is the human body; perhaps the artist’s works are the same. But at the same time, there are many moments — for example, when looking at Velázquez’s Venus — when the artist always thinks of a certain fruit. In that case, the literal subject is the human body, and the metaphorical subject is the plant. Of course, the artist does not intend to adopt some post-human perspective to articulate his aims; it is simply that images, language, and metaphor often contain too many contradictions. In the end, one often unconsciously returns to the accustomed path of metaphor. And this is precisely where this series begins.