"Fever the Ghost" is a music video which is available on YouTube. The video features a 2D graphic animation done by Felix Colgrave. The animation is perfectly synchronized with the music, and its frame-rate gives it a smooth flow, as everything is contoured with thin lines which aesthetically seem appealing to the human eye. Although the style is very peculiar, the meaning of the animation hides behind an elaborate allegory which interconnects Chinese tradition with modern-day graphic art. As we can see, the main characters are the dragon and the man, one being a symbol of water and the other a synecdoche of humanity. Furthermore, dragons in Chinese mythology uptake two roles: oracles of knowledge, and providers of life, and since almost all life has evolved by water and been sustained by it, this interpretation is plausible. In the animation, the dragon is taking the man to the core of the Earth every morning, while travelling within caves and crevasses, giving the Earth life (by flicking the underground switch). This symbolizes how, in Chinese tradition, that man and dragon (water) are to create sustainable life through irrigation of crops, fishing, and harvest. In order to consolidate the dragon's symbolic convention of water, the animation progresses and we can see a desert planet which was previously barren sprout life and generate vegetation, such is the power water holds.
"Fever the Ghost":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RHFFeQ2tu4
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