The “Fabricated” series is a body of work by Song Ling over several years, focusing on metallic instruments. In this series, surgical tools undergo mutations, transforming into mechanical devices imbued with surrealistic imagination. Song Ling uses meticulous ink lines and shading techniques to render the metallic texture of the instruments, while also endowing these objects, nature, and technology with new forms and life. On this, Lu Mingjun commented: “Such a method of painting, which abstracts all emotions and dissolves bodily perception, also confirms one point: painting is an object. However, the object here is not one in an ontological sense but a new entity imbued with agency.”