Sense of Words 字覺

244 x 488 cm | wood board, manual cutting | 2020

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Most of my female friends suffered from having painful cramps, and I could not feel what they felt until I was 20. Every anxious sentiment comes to me during the day, feeling a person gives me a hard punch right on my abdomen, but everything seems normal from the outside. I recorded the emotions by carving recombined texts on the wood board and inlaid them onto the exhibition wall. 



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The viewer can hardly read the meaning of the content at first, but through adjusting their position or angle to piece the characters together. I intended to lead them to shape and form the work while playing around with the words.

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以前身邊的女性朋友們，每個月都會深受月經的摧殘，疼痛使她們無法正常行走，也提不起精神，當時我我還未能了解她們的感受。上了大學，我的生理期開始交雜了不安的情緒、腹部像是被他人不斷蹂躪一樣，從外觀來看似乎一切都是那樣的正常，卻隱隱作痛。我選擇用「刻」的動作來記錄，並重新將「文字」排列組合，並將作品鑲進展牆之中。觀者們透過改變姿勢、變換位置的方式猜測內容，我希望他們藉由讀不懂或是只猜到幾個字的過程，形塑作品的樣態。