Here is a funny joke- '' Caution -Clearning in progress'', however the cleaner suddenly showed up and talked to me, he said'' it doesn't matter about messy floor, I can have more jobs to do''
Throughout this process, I was thinking a lot about Taiwanese aboriginal women's(Amis) clay and hands. It reminded me of my PhD research trip, the time when I was with the aboriginal helping them to dig the clay at Fakong in Taiwan on May 2013. This tribe are living in the rural area of the east part in Taiwan. They are farmers and their husbands are fishers. They rely on their hand and foot to survive. The material world for them seems too much. '' Cash'' is quite a luxury object. Everything is made by their physical actions.
For this reason in this art piece I decided to use Terracotta clay to represent them. I prepared three A1 size tracing papers.
See my process :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMWlZP2BqPY&feature=youtu.be (4:06)
Thank you Asprey Charlotte for helping me film this process.
The music:
Taiwanese folksong :Spring Wind (
望春風 Bāng chhun-hong)
See different type of craving for the Spring Wind(Taiwanese Folk Song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGflcdsCDTA
See some pictures of the result
I not too worry about the result, I more interested in the process.
The water with the clay
The hole of the space
Continue......
