The piece is an editorial photographic piece designed to accompany an article on the topic. Auriculotherapy is a little-known field of acupuncture, so to relate this topic to the audience a medium of butter sculpture was used to talk about auriculotherapy's positive effects of weight and fat loss. The two sides of the yin-yang symbol, itself a reference to acupuncture's history of Taoism, shows how those who used auriculotherapy lost more weight than those who did not.