Animation with audio file of Buddhist chanting instruments and verses of poem by Emperor Shu Ji expressing his desire in giving up the throne to become a monk. The specific verses in this animation are:

"Why am I being born to the royal family, while I am actually the monk's gown from the West?"

Emperor Shu Ji was the first Emperor of the Ching Dynasty to govern China from the Forbidden City in Beijing. He was crowned in 1664 at the age of 6 and reportedly became a monk and died at the age of 27.

Like his ancestor Emperor Shu Ji of more than two and a half centuries earlier, Asin Gioro Pu Yi also became the Emperor of China at the very young age of 5. However the Ching Dynasty ended at 1912, and Pu Yi was stripped of his throne when the Republic of China was established. Pu Yi and Pu Ji were the last members of the Asin Gioro royal family to reside at the Forbidden City. During the infamous Cultural Revolution in the 1960s,Pu Yi and Pu Ji were imprisoned by the government of the People's Republic of China .

It is very likely that Pu Yi and Pu Ji would at times ask the same question:

"Why am I being born to the Royal family?"

It is the artist's intention to unite Pu Ji and his ancestor Shu Ji (12 generations apart) in  Varley's sunroom.