How to use desire as a driving force to present a pure and nihilistic form is the focus of Shao Fengtian’s recent paintings. He follows the traditional working methods of landscape painters, sketching from life within the “nature” created through interactions with artificial intelligence. Real images are continuously fed into the vast AI factory, where their functionality as signifiers is gradually dissolved through repetitive, assembly-line-like processing. The artist then merges and reassembles these images, transforming them into “landscapes” that exist as signifiers.