The glass carries the word 警察 and POLICE, echoing the typography of Chinese police force markings and official equipment. Printed onto a transparent domestic vessel, this language of authority loses its scale and becomes strangely intimate. The object can be held, looked through, or placed against a wall, turning state signage into something absurdly close to the body.

The work recalls a cartoon method of surveillance: a glass pressed to the wall to hear what happens on the other side. Its humour is important. It exposes the fantasy of access behind all technologies of watching and listening. The object performs surveillance as a joke, then lets the joke collapse into recognition. The phonetic proximity of ZhouKe to Joker is part of this register: humour becomes an access route to the black box rather than relief from it. Contemporary observation may no longer look like this, yet the desire remains the same.