Immortal Souls (2017)

Love beyond life is a constant poetic theme, and yet these are not simply poetic theories, they have been drawn from empirical research. Never afraid to strip the poetry from the profound, cognitive scientists have labelled their most important existential paradigm 'mortality salience'. In ancient China deer were regarded as 'immortal creatures,' believed to have a lifespan of five thousand years. They inhabited the abodes of immortals and gods, and served as mounts for the god of longevity, Shoulao, and were companions of Magu, the goddess of immortality; often serving as her draught animal. Immortal Souls reflects on love and immortality and how love transcends death.