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The Weight that Holds (from Afar)
From the series
As the Crow Flies (2025)A room-size installation combining image-transfer works with textile, sound, and video. Drawn from partial images of childhood home interiors, gathered textiles resembling domestic patterns, and reworked immigration documents, the work reflects the in-between of two places, returning dust, absence, and presence. Through transparency, light, and layered voices, it holds memory, grief, and longing, tracing how home shifts through time, migration, and loss.
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2025
JCYL-194-203/25
8800 km, 14 Postcards
(Until the Day She Arrives)
8800 km, 14 Postcards (Until the Day She Arrives) consists of fourteen sets of postcard-sized works, combining everyday images with the exchange of postcards between my mother and me, recording our individual versions of imagining a place.
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2025
JCYL-180-192/25
Family Album
From the series As the Crow Flies (2025)
Family Album is about the women in my family: my grandmothers, my mother, and myself. I photographed their dressing tables—the most intimate spaces in their lives—and for my part, I photographed my working desk, where I, too, spend much of my time.
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2025
JCYL-166-169/25
2023.02–2024.02–2024.06
From the series As the Crow Flies (2025)
2023.02–2024.02–2024.06 consists of 174 photo-sculptures, mostly postcard-sized and presented in varied forms. By turning interior scenes from childhood homes into postcards — a format easily carried by a “visitor” like me — the work constructs a language that feels at once familiar and distant. These memories flicker like camera flashes: brief, sharp, and uncertain.
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2025
JCYL-001-165/25
JCYL-170-179/25
I Was Trying to Find Traces of You
From the series From Far Away (2023-2024)
This series of images were taken earlier this year, during the week between my maternal grandmother's admission to the ICU and her passing. Having only seen her briefly in the three years since her colon cancer diagnosis, I found myself desperately searching for traces of her, realizing I had been absent through her illness and present only at its end.
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2024
JCYL-010-018/24
From Far Away
seriesThis series explores relocation, shifting values, and evolving relationships between objects and memories. Initiated from photos during my return to Taiwan after 3.5 years away, it reflects observations as a "foreign" family member 8000 km apart. This body of work forms the foundation of the 2025 series As the Crow Flies, where these concerns are further developed through expanded forms and varied expressions.
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2023-2024
JCYL-001-004/23
JCYL-010-018/24
Behind the Frosted Glass
Behind the Frosted Glass is a study of Lier that’s composed by a collection of fragmented images taken in late-summer. The project captures the presence of a transition in regional landscapes, which intertwined with personal memory in the search of belongingness.
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