The Ferris Wheel, part of "Reflections: The Self in Everyone" series, reflects on life through a personal symbolic system, originating from the heart rather than academia. From birth to death, swinging through life as a dance floor lit by a disco ball.

The cross shaped composition is built on two axes: horizontal, as a Ferris wheel; vertical, as an hourglass.

The Ferris wheel carries the stages of life: the Spinning Top as the pull-cord motor to jump-start life, and Lego bricks as construction material, followed by the heartbreaks of youth and a period of building material foundation and societal approval, which gradually fades with realisation of the finiteness of life.

Age-defying enhancements; Funstatin, from statins, a widespread drug decreasing cholesterol, as a by-product of societal stress and a marker of the current time; symbols of wealth; painting as passion, ego and therapy. None of these really matter at the end of the movie, called Life.

The hourglass of life is filled with psychedelic illusions of many dreams, fragile inflated balloons popped gradually while coming to the realisation that most of them will never come true.

At the centre of this composition is Hope, preserving leftover dreams by blocking the bottleneck of the hourglass.

This work is both a reflection on, and a reminder of, the importance of living in the moment and keeping faith and hope alive. Whether the light at the end of the tunnel is still there is an open-ended question.