| Summary: | 碩士 === 東海大學 === 美術學系 === 104 === It used to be my habit to enjoy the night by walking to the nearby 24-hour convenience store at midnight. The five-minute walk was extended by the tranquil darkness of the night, while the empty black road illuminated by the moonlight reached forward toward the end of the world. Walking in the night, I could not help but wonder if it was possible to wander in the darkness until I disappeared in the silence of the night? If humans abandoned the bodies, would the spirits be able to see the bodies left behind? Once we abandoned the bodies, what was left in the world?
The work “Every day, thousand upon thousands lives come and go” is a documentation of how I explore the various essences of my life and myself. The first chapter describes the obstacle of language in my everyday life and the possible way to transform it. The second chapter is some fragmented paragraphs about the experiences and realizations of the ordinary events. The third chapter includes three parts – “Illusion,” “Embodiment,” and “Sense” – which illustrate how the three-stage artistic transformation from spirit, appearance, to perception is mysteriously evoked. The fourth chapter, “Evocation” is an explanation of the works in my graduate studies. The fifth chapter, “Retrospect” concludes that birth and death are like the natural course of Sun the and Moon rising and setting every day.
In the course of my life, I have been trying to figure out the most appropriate relation with the self, making compromises and searching for the right personality and appearance. Every life form in the world has its most natural and comfortable style of existence. Like a surreal illusion, it keeps changing into different shapes. Obsession is meaningless, since nothing is unchangeable in life.
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