the lake – bubbles from a distant sojourn

● 2004 ● taipei ● 40.6x50.4cmx27 ● inject on transparence ●

Located in the suburbs of Keelung City in Taiwan, Lover’s Lake is one of the first things I thought about. I first visited the lake with my daughter Ivy early spring of 2004. We walked around it and took photographs. I thought this would provide us several nice pictures. Yet, after weeks of trying, I still made no progress. In my mind, the lake comes with too many images of youth and unrealized promises, perhaps because of its name. In this place, people do all they can, even going to extremes to depict in writing their devotion to love. Gradually my idea of producing a work entitled Lake disappeared. Based on its narration of eternal circumstances, the photographic work for this series, previously entitled Odyssey Project and Distance, was completed in June 2002. However, the negatives were mixed together one on top of the other, and they bled together over time – so that when I tried to separate them later, they resembled nothing but a waste of time. Does the eternal moment continue to exist then? In June 2002, I found myself in Yellowstone National Park in US, where I encountered geysers of bubbling mud, so I connected all the experiences from “Lake”, copied 27 pictures from my earlier works about “Lake” and made them to be one piece of art and also it could be 27 different works for multiple uses.