In today’s cultural environment, people often follow trends blindly, idolize foreign cultures, and gradually lose the capacity for independent judgment. In response, I created a performance art piece in which I curl and perm the wool of a sheep—transferring a distinctly human beauty ritual onto an animal that has no understanding of fashion, style, or aesthetic capital. The act is intentionally absurd, almost ridiculous: a sheep wearing a “human hairstyle.” Yet it is precisely this absurdity that reveals a deeper tension. When a human practice is imposed onto another species, one question arises: Does the sheep really need a perm? It already has its own natural curls.

The work uses humor and discomfort to expose the hidden coercion behind social conformity—the subtle pressures embedded in trends, aesthetics, and cultural worship. By placing the sheep in the position of an unwilling fashion participant, the performance becomes a metaphor for how individuals often become passive recipients of external values, shaped by forces they never chose. In this sense, the sheep’s indifference or potential discomfort mirrors the condition of people who uncritically adopt trends without reflection.

Through this gesture, the work asks: When taste, identity, and value are shaped by external pressures, who is truly making the decision? And when a hairstyle that symbolizes self-expression is forced onto a being without agency, what does this reveal about the erosion of autonomy in our own society?