Food 食物

食物帶了異地生活的人

一種存在的希望

一種慰藉

一種安全感

                                                                          每一種食物
                                                            代表著一種曾經存在的記憶

一盤沙拉

                                                             一個季節限定的優格
                                                             記載著我走過的痕跡

                                                        在最難過的時候  需要一些食物度過
Sometimes, I felt homeland food is only thing let me relaxing, I am living the UK, I am a foreign, sometimes I walk in the  street, I didn't do anything, the teenage were surrounded by me and bully me, and some British told me, it is the part of the British culture,I think this country is seen to got the illness. That time, I just want to go home, but where is my home, everything is lost. Just' food' is cover my mind.

也許糖可以滿滿地塞住所有的傷痕

也許簡單的沙拉

知道我的內心盡是夏天的記憶

也許記憶像是起司一樣

                                                       也許難吃的pizza 讓我知道我還活著
                                                       且有食物可以吃

記憶一直停留在夏天的美好

                                                     
                                                                  好吃的優格

                                                    發現Taiwanese food 是一種驚喜

                                                          發現好吃的巧克力

                                                      天氣冷了, 是吃熱熱甜點的好時機

                                                               英國製的煎餃
                                                                   排的真美

                                                                早晨的包子

                                         不好吃的醬料包 澳洲的朋友說 澳洲也有這品牌

                                                                   喜歡自己料理食物

                                                              想食物如何擺 看起來好吃
                                                                吃起來也不會造成負擔

                                                     

29 Oct 2013 clay paintings

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......

1 Nov 2013 Clay paintings

Material : Royal Porcelain + Terracotta

See my process: (4:37)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clZ1MPcWRG4&feature=youtu.be

Thank you  Asprey Charlotte for helping me film this process.

This time, I was thinking about the sounds of the clay. I tried to match my movement to the music.
It was quiet a challenge because we prepared the music just before we started filming. Charlotte helped me to type '' Chinese music'' on YouTube on her iPad. We decided this music together. The music was suitable for my mind on the 1st Nov 2013.

I used Chinese writing as a process to express my inner thoughts in clay.
I wanted my writing to become fluid within the water and the clay.
I used two types of clays to represent different powers in my life - East and Western society.
When I lived in Asia, I imagined '' we have a pretty traditional life style'' but when I studied in the UK I felt this was not case. Sometimes, I felt this society is pretty conservative in Western, but sometimes is quite cutting edge.

I am always living in two worlds. My life is different with people no matter  if I am in Taiwan or the UK.Sometimes I hate difference because of my skin and my nationality, but what can I do in the real world. I hide myself in a surreal space - Art. Can I live in this world forever ? I don't know.

I feel I am not dealing with cross cultural issues because '' cross culture'' for me sometimes means to find out a different society and to compare. Can I find out some sense that is similar to each other.



This relates closely to politics of emotion.

Continue......

Autumnal scenery

Bonfire night (5 Nov 2013)

入境Austria

This was a good seting of breakfast in the UK (Gatwick south Terminal).
This  was my first time to see baked beans put in a ceramic bowl, such a good idea.

I always feel excited when looking out through the window of a plane, such a nice view.

YA - We had arrived at the (VIE) Vienna airport

:)