The “Seesaw” series was inspired by the English word“seesaw”. Shen made a seesaw full of paradoxes: The two people playing seesaw can hardly see their playmates and the situation of “see and saw” turns into “unseeable”.

The artist has extracted "game essence" from the most basic physical principles of seesaw. The alienation of medium, form and material has brought a multi-dimensional communication experience. He pursues a groundbreaking artistic practice while giving games diverse approaches. As Heidegger said, works of art are uniquely subordinate to the realm it has opened up. Shen Lieyi integrates his plain worship and love of natural world into the consciousness of life, expanding the metaphorical attributes of the "everyday object" from the perspective of cultural symbols, either visible or invisible, individual or collective, mirror image or alienation, instant or delay. Both expressionism and cognitive theory in art believe that art is the carrier of communication, which can exchange feelings, emotions, ideas, and concepts.

The seesaw exists as a way of dialogue and communication. On the one hand, it reveals the homologous attributes of "seeing" and "not seeing", so that the body and mind can confront each other. On the other hand, it breaks the wide gap between people in the modern informational society and refers to a familiar sense of strangeness, and then realizes the process of turning the two sets of binary opposition - media and physical property, as well as form and concept — from implicit to explicit, which not only presents the pluralistic forms of cultural awareness, but also reflects the artist's wisdom contained in his simple and quiet aesthetic consciousness.