The key word in this series by Daniele is "poverty". The pictures present suffocating poverty to the extreme, which is alien to the power and prosperity that China strives to show on the international stage or the wild expansion image of China shaped by western media. As an Italian photographer, Daniele searches the origin of art with the perspective to approach the poverty in Chinese rural areas. It doesn"t originate from any principle and ideology, neither is the accidental irony toward socialism caused by Michelangelo Antonioni"s documentary during the Cultural Revolution in China. Nowadays, we are more open-minded to face the truth of China. We are more willing to feel the shock by art and to be moved by the ascetic monk-like artist"s trace. In this respect, we shall thank Daniele for recording the contemporary rural areas in China, leaving behind all the treasures.