Magical Picture of Auspicious Lucky Fortune

This image was passed to me through a Chinese social media app called WeChat. I had no idea what the Chinese characters said but the image immediately reminded me of a funny op-art painting. I asked my Chinese friend what the Chinese text said, and it roughly says that it is a magical picture, and if you can see a smiling face, you should immediately send the image to all your contacts, and you will have good things to come an hour later. If you do not pass the image to others, you will have certain doom. I thought it would be interesting to exalt this chain letter idea into a painting as it subverts the whole idea of something that can be easily passed on and shared with others. This painting comes with 2 options available to the owner. #1. The owner can choose to tear off the remaining tape and ''finish'' the painting by revealing the entire image. It has been intentionally left half-revealed. #2, The owner of this work can choose to heed the advice given in the text of the painting and give it to another person upon seeing the smiling face and receive magical lucky auspicious good fortune, or risk the consequences and keep it to themselves. I am choosing to do the former and thus offer it on the Artling.