Echoes in memory｜記憶中的絕響
PET bottle, motor, copper bars, metronome, Ringing cymbals, water.
105×55×120(cm), Taiwan, 2015.
寶特瓶、馬達、銅條、節拍器、鐵絲、響拔、水，臺灣，2015。
When I was young, my father worked in the lathe industry and my mother was a piano teacher. Looking back now, the environment I was in every day was a delicate and conflicting space. The floor of our home was filled with iron shavings from industrial production, and the air was a mixture of the smell of iron and oil. In my ears, there was the noisy sound of machinery echoing, yet at the same time, there were rhythmic and melodic piano sounds. The combination of these two elements is the reason why this piece was created by me.Using materials I collected from a recycling plant, I created a toy that embodies my childhood memories and my imagination of the machinery. I call it a toy because, in a way, this experience in such an environment was a companion that accompanied me through a certain period of my life. But as I grew older, the environment at home changed as well. The conflicting environment that filled my memories slowly faded in my mind. I believe the existence of this artwork is more like a commemoration of that sound that no longer exists.
在我還小的時候，家中父親所從事的是車床產業，母親是鋼琴老師，現在想起來我每天所處的環境，那是一個非常微妙且衝突的空間，家中地面上充斥著工業生產下所產生的鐵屑，聞到的是鐵與油的混雜氣體，耳裡一邊迴盪著機台的吵雜聲，一邊卻又是有節拍有旋律的鋼琴聲，這兩相的結合，是這件作品被我生產出來的原因。我藉由從回收廠所撿來的材料，依照我對機台的想像製作了一個我童年記憶下的玩具，之所以稱之為玩具的原因，某方面來說這種環境的體驗，是伴我度過其中一個人生時期的玩伴，但長大了，家中環境也個跟著異動。我記憶中充滿衝突的環境，也慢慢的在我腦中消退，我想這件作品的存在，更像是在紀念著那個不復存在的聲響。