2025

Cement, lime powder, water-based glue
Dimensions Variable

In the past year, I have moved to the suburbs of Taipei and worked in the mountains of Tainan. In addition to the slower pace of life, I have also chosen simple and non-traffic-consuming ways of communicating with the outside world due to the weak internet signals.

The idea of the work “Nod off” came from staring at the screen while waiting for the incomplete pictures to slow
load. When I looked at these loosely frozen images in a few blocks of varied shades, besides thinking about my old eyes not being able to focus, I also realized the meaning of this delay: the basic pattern of these exhibitions is actually very similar, and there is no need to distinguish them in detail because they are mostly the same thing modified and reorganized.

Based on this realization, I imagined what positive work I could do within this model, focusing on other concerns. First of all, I have to reduce the space to a general scene: a white wall, receiving a bright, even wash of light balanced by a second light source projected onto the center of a painting; then a close observation of the way different shades are distributed on the wall, starting from the darker areas. I start from the slightly darker positions, evenly apply a layer of light-colored plaster, adding another layer of darker plaster as the darker surfaces fade, filling in all the shadows on the walls with thickened shades of gray, turning the shadows into convex surfaces, and the brightest white fields into slightly concave surfaces. It is like filling in the impression of a void, or approaching a “Nod off” that is still being loaded.

2025.03.15-04.19  "Nod", Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan