The Wood Strips 木條

60 x 560 cm | wood strip | 2019

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For some time, I was crazy about framing my sketches and photos. From the beginning of cutting and sanding the wood strips to hanging up the framed work on the wall, I found it very ritualistic. It also brought respectful meaning to those works that used to lay in the folder. 

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“Do people notice the frame while looking at a work?” I was always curious about what we would see without the image in the center of the work. I considered changing the center part into a dent or bulge shape or rearrange the frames. Eventually, having the center and the frame coherent seemed more balanced to me. Yet, I shortened the space between frames so that the viewer will not be able to read through the center. By doing that, the work guided people to the field of potential subjects.

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有一陣子，我瘋狂的為自己的插畫、相片「做木框」。從木條裁切到打磨，最後將圖裱起來的過程，具有儀式性、象徵完整，並向曾經那些散落在資料夾中的作品表達一種敬意。「看作品的同時，有人會注意到框嗎？」我很好奇這件小事，我好奇如果少了中心的圖，我們會注意到什麼？我考慮過將中心的形狀改成凸起或凹陷，也思考過排列的方式。最後決定統一中心與木框的形狀，並縮短框之間的距離，不易閱讀空白處，以回應中心內容是否為主體的問題。