早期我的作品受到Alice Neel，Marlene Dumas的影響，讓我對人物畫產生很大的著迷，開始仔細研讀人的細部，表情裡的情緒、肢體，自2003年起我用攝影機取代畫筆，開始錄像創作。我早期的錄像作品Numbers、Gaze/Parents、Gaze/Mother、Strangers in the Strange Land…..都是運用特寫鏡頭來研讀人的情緒跟困境，透過這樣的鏡頭運用，我練習跟自己的過去對話，以及我跟外在世界的關係，在心理的層面上有很大的解放。我也嘗試其他媒材創作人像，像是磁磚、鐵絲和拍立得。

 

我的作品從2012年起有很大的改變，我利用廢棄的木料，十多年來的收藏物、布料、金屬和雜誌，結合大量的手工縫紉為複合媒材進行創作。這個不同於過往的創作方式，切割木頭以及針線穿梭於異材質之間的衝突與結合，讓我自己檢視了初為人母成為專職母親的混亂，以及停滯多年重回創作軌道的重新尋求定位。對我來說，這是一個全新的開始，像是我扮演的新角色一樣，我的創作主題除了我自己，還重新檢視家人，以及孩子在我生命裡的關係。

 

我也使用不少日常生活的物件，像是蛋盒、裝蒜頭的網袋、保養品的包裝、絲襪、小孩強褓時期床邊的音樂鈴、家人破舊或是太小的貼身衣物….因為這是最貼近我生活的一大部分，或許這也是我對「親密」與「當下生活」的詮釋。

 

Inspired by Alice Neel and Marlene Dumas, I became fascinated with portraiture. Since 2003, portraiture has been the main research subject for me. My work involves video and interaction, sometimes even incorporating body art and personally taking part in actions. The relationship between my work and me is a journey of self-identification and liberation. I have also been experimenting with different media, including painting, drawing, video, film and photography, as they have provided various ways to explore the density of portraiture and to study people as well as myself. 

 

Most of my works can be described as “psycho-objects”, which accentuate their heightened emotional export. I try to find the most suitable medium to deliver the visual messages that I hope to convey. As such I recruit a wide range of materials such as wires, tiles and polaroid, and dialoguing with the medium is an important part of my creative process. 

 

The year 2012 more or less marks a dividing line between my former works and the mixed media sculptures that I currently work on. Using discarded wooden products and drawing from my personal antique collection, combined with sewing and carpentry, I try to strip down the functional existence of the original object, and bring together the components to form a new state that describes the reorganized relationship between the objects and myself. Egg boxes, garlic bags, family members’ boxers....I use constituents of my daily routines to depict my life. The artwork represents my genuine feelings and the process of me dialoguing with the external world, including private and social spheres.