2023
︎︎︎︎︎︎ No window, 3 pm, and Bird Dropping /Angled Sunlight and Safety Net/Everything Good Is Always Somewhere Else︎︎︎︎︎︎ Sun Faded Snowy mountain, Packaging Tape and 1093 Days Apart
︎︎︎︎︎︎ Postcard Edition
2022
2021
2020
Calendar
060420-070420, intvl.23’
Burning Incense
Securit
Camera
Through a 12th-FloorWindow - Taxi, intlv.24’
Through a 12th-Floor Window - Fortum Quick, intvl.36'
︎︎︎︎︎︎ Paintings
︎︎︎ From Far Away (Ongoing)
︎︎︎︎︎︎ No window, 3 pm, and Bird Dropping /Angled Sunlight and Safety Net/Everything Good Is Always Somewhere Else︎︎︎︎︎︎ Sun Faded Snowy mountain, Packaging Tape and 1093 Days Apart
︎︎︎︎︎︎ Postcard Edition
2022
︎︎︎ Behind the Frosted Glass
2021
︎︎︎ It’s Not Far Away
2020
︎︎︎ Waiting
︎︎︎ Time Practices:
Calendar
︎︎︎ Time Practices:
060420-070420, intvl.23’
︎︎︎ Time Practices:
Burning Incense
︎︎︎ Time Practices:
Securit
Camera
︎︎︎ Time Practices:
Through a 12th-FloorWindow - Taxi, intlv.24’
︎︎︎ Time Practices:
Through a 12th-Floor Window - Fortum Quick, intvl.36'
2019
︎︎︎ Time Practices: Twig
︎︎︎ Time Practices: 8 Hours
︎︎︎ Untitled w/ Miao Sun
︎︎︎︎︎︎ Paintings
Sun Faded Snowy mountain, Packaging Tape and 1093 days apart
2023
154 x 113 cm
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, fishing wire, magnets, and wooden mount
Faded wallpaper on Grandma’s wall for over 30 years, a piece of Imaginary landscape, has fallen over, and gotten repaired, countless times. It took 1093 days for my return, to look at it again. Now, I am perhaps closer to that imaginary landscape, more than anyone in the family, ever before.
Sun Faded Snowy mountain, Packaging Tape and 1093 days apart is part of the ongoing series, “From Far Away". The project takes root in a series of photographs captured during a brief return to my homeland, Taiwan, after an absence of 3.5 years.
The work is processed with a self-developed technique, transferring inkjet pigments to layers of dried paint and washing away the paper fibers. The symbols on the bottom of the work are 1093 counts of my absence. It is made by two ways of counting 5: one from Taiwan (5 strokes of making the Chinese character ‘Zheng’ 正); the other is from non-Chinese speaking region, and also the common way here in Norway. The drawings are engraved utilized the wash-out process of the image transfer.
* The project is currently exhibiting in Bitácora, as part of Tegnetriennalen, - 22/12 at Tenthaus project space, Christian Kroghs gate 34, Oslo (map).
* The project is supported by Prosjektstøtte from Kulturrådet Høst, 2023.
2023
154 x 113 cm
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, fishing wire, magnets, and wooden mount
Faded wallpaper on Grandma’s wall for over 30 years, a piece of Imaginary landscape, has fallen over, and gotten repaired, countless times. It took 1093 days for my return, to look at it again. Now, I am perhaps closer to that imaginary landscape, more than anyone in the family, ever before.
Sun Faded Snowy mountain, Packaging Tape and 1093 days apart is part of the ongoing series, “From Far Away". The project takes root in a series of photographs captured during a brief return to my homeland, Taiwan, after an absence of 3.5 years.
The work is processed with a self-developed technique, transferring inkjet pigments to layers of dried paint and washing away the paper fibers. The symbols on the bottom of the work are 1093 counts of my absence. It is made by two ways of counting 5: one from Taiwan (5 strokes of making the Chinese character ‘Zheng’ 正); the other is from non-Chinese speaking region, and also the common way here in Norway. The drawings are engraved utilized the wash-out process of the image transfer.
* The project is currently exhibiting in Bitácora, as part of Tegnetriennalen, - 22/12 at Tenthaus project space, Christian Kroghs gate 34, Oslo (map).
* The project is supported by Prosjektstøtte from Kulturrådet Høst, 2023.
Part of From Far Away (Ongoing)
No window, 3 pm, and Bird Dropping
2023
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, fishing wire, magnets, and wooden mount
124 x 142 cm
Angled Sunlight and Safety Net
2023
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, fishing wire, magnets, and wooden mount
98 x 65 cm
Everything good is always somewhere else2023
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, fishing wire, magnets, and wooden mount
106 x 141 cm
"From Far Away" is a series of works that explore themes of relocation, shifting values, and the evolving relationships between objects, emotions, and memories. They are based on photographs taken during my return to my homeland, Taiwan, after a 3.5-year absence.
"Angled Sunlight and Safety Net" was taken at my paternal grandma's house, in the afternoon, when sunlight takes on a certain quality just before sunset. "No window, 3 pm, and Bird Dropping" was taken at my maternal grandma's house, featuring a scene from my earliest memories. It shows a curtain in front of a window that has never been opened and has had bird droppings staining it since my childhood. "Everything good is always somewhere else" was taken between these two locations, featuring a common rural town scene by the side of the road.
These scenes represent my observations as a "foreign" family member residing 8000 km and 7 hours apart, where my emotions and access to information come delayed.
The works are created by a self-developed technique. I take analog photos, print them out digitally, and then transfer the ink from the prints to transparent acrylic paint. The result is photo print pigments embedded in layered dried paint. The photograph becomes three-dimensional with an intriguing tactile depth, blurring the lines between traditional photography, painting, and sculpture.
* The project was exhibited with Tenthaus art collective at Oslo Negativ, Den gamle Veterinærhøgskolen, Oslo.
* The project is supported by Prosjektstøtte from Kulturrådet Høst, 2023.
*Postcard Edition is acquired by the art collection of Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden, in 2024.
No window, 3 pm, and Bird Dropping
2023
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, fishing wire, magnets, and wooden mount
124 x 142 cm
Angled Sunlight and Safety Net
2023
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, fishing wire, magnets, and wooden mount
98 x 65 cm
Everything good is always somewhere else2023
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, fishing wire, magnets, and wooden mount
106 x 141 cm
"From Far Away" is a series of works that explore themes of relocation, shifting values, and the evolving relationships between objects, emotions, and memories. They are based on photographs taken during my return to my homeland, Taiwan, after a 3.5-year absence.
"Angled Sunlight and Safety Net" was taken at my paternal grandma's house, in the afternoon, when sunlight takes on a certain quality just before sunset. "No window, 3 pm, and Bird Dropping" was taken at my maternal grandma's house, featuring a scene from my earliest memories. It shows a curtain in front of a window that has never been opened and has had bird droppings staining it since my childhood. "Everything good is always somewhere else" was taken between these two locations, featuring a common rural town scene by the side of the road.
These scenes represent my observations as a "foreign" family member residing 8000 km and 7 hours apart, where my emotions and access to information come delayed.
The works are created by a self-developed technique. I take analog photos, print them out digitally, and then transfer the ink from the prints to transparent acrylic paint. The result is photo print pigments embedded in layered dried paint. The photograph becomes three-dimensional with an intriguing tactile depth, blurring the lines between traditional photography, painting, and sculpture.
* The project was exhibited with Tenthaus art collective at Oslo Negativ, Den gamle Veterinærhøgskolen, Oslo.
* The project is supported by Prosjektstøtte from Kulturrådet Høst, 2023.
*Postcard Edition is acquired by the art collection of Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden, in 2024.
Behind the Frosted Glass
2022
approx. 100 x 380 cm, according to the site. 95 x 20 cm each.
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, magnets, mirrors, metal bars
Pumpkin patch, apple trees, warning signs, decaying explosive manufacturing plants, green-flooded lampposts, tower cranes, blue sky, white blinds and a black roof.
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. In combination with the photographic elements, a series of mirror installations will be present alongside. They will act as extended windows, looking into the industrial field and witnessing the in-between, the now and then.
* The project was exhibited in two group exhibitions with Tenthaus art collective:
Kunst på Store Gilhus gård- Polyphonic vision, Store Gilhus Gård, Lier.
Oslo Negativ, Det Gamle Biblioteket, Oslo.
* The project is supported by Prosjektstøtte from Kulturrådet Høst, 2022.
2022
approx. 100 x 380 cm, according to the site. 95 x 20 cm each.
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, magnets, mirrors, metal bars
Pumpkin patch, apple trees, warning signs, decaying explosive manufacturing plants, green-flooded lampposts, tower cranes, blue sky, white blinds and a black roof.
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. In combination with the photographic elements, a series of mirror installations will be present alongside. They will act as extended windows, looking into the industrial field and witnessing the in-between, the now and then.
* The project was exhibited in two group exhibitions with Tenthaus art collective:
Kunst på Store Gilhus gård- Polyphonic vision, Store Gilhus Gård, Lier.
Oslo Negativ, Det Gamle Biblioteket, Oslo.
* The project is supported by Prosjektstøtte from Kulturrådet Høst, 2022.
It’s Not Far Away
2021
Various sizes
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigments
I am sitting here, waiting, is it coming?
Through this fixated view, a window that I see everyday from the beginning of the day til the end, where do my eyes land? Dead bugs, trees, those two birds that probably have a nest somewhere, his belongings, her gifts, all intertwined. I am lost, is it here yet?
It’s Not Far Away is about the voyeuristic glances and the distorted experiences of time passing in everyday life, through windows with personal connections. The main work is consisted of several photographs that document a single motif in different perspectives. One set is focused on the window frame and another is fixed on the view on the other side. These fluid, organic documentation traces down the washed out and preserved, time and memory.
* The project is supported by BKV Prosjektstøtte, from NBK
2021
Various sizes
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigments
I am sitting here, waiting, is it coming?
Through this fixated view, a window that I see everyday from the beginning of the day til the end, where do my eyes land? Dead bugs, trees, those two birds that probably have a nest somewhere, his belongings, her gifts, all intertwined. I am lost, is it here yet?
It’s Not Far Away is about the voyeuristic glances and the distorted experiences of time passing in everyday life, through windows with personal connections. The main work is consisted of several photographs that document a single motif in different perspectives. One set is focused on the window frame and another is fixed on the view on the other side. These fluid, organic documentation traces down the washed out and preserved, time and memory.
* The project is supported by BKV Prosjektstøtte, from NBK
