Settlers From Far Distance, Qiu Zhijie, "The Section of Experimental Art at the 19th National Art Exhibition"

Thirty-eight bamboo baskets, imitating the human foot, are scattered in the exhibition room, as if people walking on the ground. Every basket is filled with one kind of vegetable or fruit that has been imported to China in history. For example, the sugar canes came to China in the Western Zhou Dynasty, grapes and carrots imported 2000 years ago; peppers and potatoes hundreds of years ago, and strawberries only came to China a hundred years ago. The import of these fruits and vegetables into China are side products of cultural communications in ancient time, as well as the colonization of modern China.

Every kind of fruits and vegetables here has a label explaining its import history to China. The artist puts fills the foot-shaped basket with these fruits and vegetables as a metaphor of them walking thousands of miles to settle down here, while their tastes have changed to cater to the local people. Today they are common food in everyday life, that people forgot their foreign roots.