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Exhibition
2026
8 x 12’
Oriented Strand Board, aluminum, silkscreen printing, lithograph, mild steel…etc.
I salute to American flag, meanwhile I’m laughing at my choice. Why am I devotion to a country that doesn’t welcome me.
This 2 pieces are a miniature of my 2 years life in New York. Over the past 2 years, I have built a new life here, new phone number, apartment, bank account…etc. The more I settle into this system, the more I become aware of how fragile and uncertain my legal status is. This tension has become the core of my recent work.
I created a floor piece titled Path, made from printed visa application documents bound into ramp like structures. Viewers are invited to walk on top of them, experiencing a sense of imbalance and instability through their own bodies.
Another installation consists of a constructed wall using oriented strand board, where I embed multiple works. At its center is a piece referencing the American flag, I am smiling while saluting, yet internally questioning my decision to commit to a country that may not fully accept me. This work exists in two versions, day and night, reflecting the 12 hour time difference between New York and Taipei. The shifting time zones mirror my ongoing internal conflict, which does not resolve.
2026
33 x 23”
Aluminum, Silkscreen printing
We salute the American flag, but meanwhile giggling.
We question our decision, why devote ourselves to a country that doesn’t seem to want us,why remain loyal to a place that has no need for our presence.
We stand there like clowns.
2026
33 x 23”
Aluminum, Silkscreen printing
There are two version of it, day time and night time presenting 12 hours time zone different in Taipei, New York. New York day time is Taipei’s night time. My inner conflict in day and night never end.
2024
Silkscreen, takeout boxes, digital prints
... But we are in Arts school, unique may be the most common things in Arts school. I called it as “inflation of uniqueness”.
2024
24 x 24” (with frame)
17 x 17” (without frame)
Silscreen printing, takeout boxes, canvas
2024
44 x 44 x 28”
Silscreen printing, 144 takeout boxes
Talent Incorporate is a fake product I made. I want to selling something that is unable to sell. Sometimes I want talent and inspiration just walk in to my body, I even would like to paid for it.
I hand silkscreen printing on 144 takeout boxes, meanwhile thinking why I'm I doing this. I can totally call a factory to print 200 for me in one week, not hand printing for a month. So I start thinking what is the uniqueness part in printmaking.
Every edition printmaker make will have difference between each of them. Some people called it's the unique part of printmaking. If I just only seeing one of the edition, 25/100, I may feel uniqueness. But what if there is a hundred duplicated beside, will the edition number 25/100 still unique enough to me?
However, people don't care these overthinking stuff. It's like an imaginary illness to me, or to...artists. That we think we are unique. But we are in Arts school, unique may be the most common things in Arts school. I called it "inflation of uniqueness". So I give up. Instead to be unique, I just want to have fun.
2026
10 x 20 x 24 inches (W x L x H)
Matches, found toy, spray paint, digital printing
Graffiti by Ethan Friedberg
In The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin argues that an artwork’s “aura” will disappear through the process of mechanical reproduction.
Much of my practice is built on duplication, with quantity, repetition, and editions. If aura is said to vanish through reproduction, I wonder what if bring it back? Like a spark of fire.
What does aura look like? Perhaps it resembles the visions in “The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Andersen. Each time the girl strikes a match, a brief image of warmth, hope, and fulfillment appears, than the flame dies out. In this sense, the artist is like the little match girl. Every new work is a match we light, carrying the hope of healing, recognition, or success. Reality returns when the fire goes out, it can be failure, poverty, disappointment, or doubt.
Aura Match presents aura as something fragile, temporary, and shareable. During the exhibition opening, the “aura matches” will be given away to visitors when I am around, and restocked on the shelf when I leave. They can be lit, used, and consumed like a cigarette, allowing aura to circulate, vanish, and reappear again.