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No art could represent reality. Reality exists solely in the moment. Art is only means for us to fathom truth, or a truth with which we cannot come to terms. Art is deception, and the artist is a great con man who through trickery of blatant illusions and phantasms, evokes a truth that is more real than reality.

Since the 17th century, Keelung — named after Mt. Jilong nearby, which was itself originally named for its likeness to a traditional chicken cage — has been a battlefield for colonists where the worlds of the living and the dead coexist. Long immersed in foreign cultures and …