Thus, playfulness—or parody—emerges as a viable middle ground. For Luo Xi, parody is a contemporary stance for facing the world. Much like Dante abandoned the elite Latin of the upper classes for the common Tuscan dialect, Luo Xi rejects polished artistic pretension. He draws instead from a "secular" lexicon of violent aesthetics and blunt, curious symbols to remap our imagination of the present. Using The Divine Comedy as a narrative framework and "cooking" as his central metaphor, Luo Xi employs his signature techniques—reverse perspective, symbolic collage, and structural deconstruction—to juxtapose the sacred with the profane. In his hands, the circles of Hell are reimagined as "spiritual dishes": absurdity is the appetizer, desire is the main course. Everything solid, holy, or agonizing is tossed and deconstructed in a stir-fry of secular symbols, exposing the nakedness of humanity and the absurdity of the real.