Only one of the works sparks its interest, which is from Yan Dong who froze water on thin membranes to get a unique shape of ice crystals.
While the low-temperature artist begins a new creation by lifting frozen blocks out of the oceans into orbit, Yan Dong instead asks questions about physics and raises concerns about human survival.
At first, the low-temperature artist answers them, explaining to come from an extremely cold cloud of dark matter in intergalactic space and believing, that only art can be a reason to exist as a highly advanced civilization will eventually reach the end of science making even survival trivial.
After every single ocean has been transported, Yan Dong indeed spends days without eating or drinking to look at the marvelous ring of ice around Earth, naming it Sea of Dreams.
Rachel Cordasco, writing for World Literature Today, says that Liu "carefully contrasts this cosmic creative act with the suffering and destruction that the lack of water causes on Earth.