2007-2013 台灣「美景」Vision of Taiwan
The “Vision of Taiwan” series of images expresses personal observations, experiences and opinions of the environment of Taiwan. “Photography” has been a means for me to find emotional relief. The photographing process, I stood inside a space and photographed myself with long exposure by flashing my face with multiple flashes using a handheld flashlight. The intense flashes enable the releasing of emotion, and the property of photosensitive materials that accumulates light and allows “over exposure” to be produced in an “out of control” manner and causes temporary “blindness” or “lost of sight” in human faces, and beyond the visual aesthetics in the visual expression form the “environmental” issues and the conflicting perception of “aesthetics” hidden behind the visual perspectives, insinuating the absurdity and conflicts that exist in the environment.
Behind the seemingly image of a beautiful scenery hides absurd objects and environmental crisis. A “human figure billboard” faces the public indifferently without any facial expressions. The face of existing environmental seems to have lost the “real world” into a vacuum of the situation, therefore one can only “look without seeing” when facing current situations in the surroundings. The “Vision of Taiwan” series offers views from the “documentary photography” aspects of recognition of the relations between humans and our surroundings and the “surrealism” aspects of calm criticism. Although it does show a certain level of disappointment and pessimism toward the current state of Taiwan’s environment, but it still holds an ideal of expectation of “life reform”.
「台灣『美景』」系列影像是對身處環境(台灣)表達個人的觀察、體驗及意見，並透過「攝影創作」尋找內在情緒抒發的途徑。拍攝的過程，我站立在環境中，於「長時間曝光」下，使用瞬間強光對臉部進行多次的曝閃，強光如同一種情緒的釋放，而感光材料累積光量的特質，「失控」的製造出「過量」的光，造成人臉的「盲目」與「失明」；影像呈現形式之視覺美感的同時，隱藏著視覺之外的「環境」問題與「美」的矛盾感受，暗示環境存在的荒謬與矛盾。
在看似美麗風景的影像背後，隱藏著荒謬的並置與環境危機。一個面無表情的「人形看板」冷漠的面對大衆；面對存在於周遭的環境，彷彿抽離了現實進入了真空情境，對環境存在的現狀只能「視而不見」。「台灣『美景』」系列影像中，從環境的「紀實」認知到「超現實」的冷靜批判，對台灣環境現狀有某種程度的失望與悲觀，但也企圖在「失控」的「美景」當中尋找一種反省與改變的可能。
The “Vision of Taiwan” series of images expresses personal observations, experiences and opinions of the environment of Taiwan. “Photography” has been a means for me to find emotional relief. The photographing process, I stood inside a space and photographed myself with long exposure by flashing my face with multiple flashes using a handheld flashlight. The intense flashes enable the releasing of emotion, and the property of photosensitive materials that accumulates light and allows “over exposure” to be produced in an “out of control” manner and causes temporary “blindness” or “lost of sight” in human faces, and beyond the visual aesthetics in the visual expression form the “environmental” issues and the conflicting perception of “aesthetics” hidden behind the visual perspectives, insinuating the absurdity and conflicts that exist in the environment.
Behind the seemingly image of a beautiful scenery hides absurd objects and environmental crisis. A “human figure billboard” faces the public indifferently without any facial expressions. The face of existing environmental seems to have lost the “real world” into a vacuum of the situation, therefore one can only “look without seeing” when facing current situations in the surroundings. The “Vision of Taiwan” series offers views from the “documentary photography” aspects of recognition of the relations between humans and our surroundings and the “surrealism” aspects of calm criticism. Although it does show a certain level of disappointment and pessimism toward the current state of Taiwan’s environment, but it still holds an ideal of expectation of “life reform”.
「台灣『美景』」系列影像是對身處環境(台灣)表達個人的觀察、體驗及意見，並透過「攝影創作」尋找內在情緒抒發的途徑。拍攝的過程，我站立在環境中，於「長時間曝光」下，使用瞬間強光對臉部進行多次的曝閃，強光如同一種情緒的釋放，而感光材料累積光量的特質，「失控」的製造出「過量」的光，造成人臉的「盲目」與「失明」；影像呈現形式之視覺美感的同時，隱藏著視覺之外的「環境」問題與「美」的矛盾感受，暗示環境存在的荒謬與矛盾。
在看似美麗風景的影像背後，隱藏著荒謬的並置與環境危機。一個面無表情的「人形看板」冷漠的面對大衆；面對存在於周遭的環境，彷彿抽離了現實進入了真空情境，對環境存在的現狀只能「視而不見」。「台灣『美景』」系列影像中，從環境的「紀實」認知到「超現實」的冷靜批判，對台灣環境現狀有某種程度的失望與悲觀，但也企圖在「失控」的「美景」當中尋找一種反省與改變的可能。