Living Stranded
擱淺之人
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This is a project about revealing the uneasy incidents which happen among ordinary people.
揭露這些默默發生在我們身邊的痛苦與無奈，獻給所有努力活著的擱淺之人。
Living Stranded critically interrogates the latent and often obscured moments of social discomfort and trauma embedded within quotidian experience. Employing a multidisciplinary methodology that integrates digital photography, acrylic paint, fluorescent pigments, and ancient oracle bone script, the work explores the tension between visibility and erasure in contemporary narratives of hardship.
The incorporation of oracle bone script—a primordial Chinese writing system—functions as a semiotic strategy, embedding fragmented textual codes within the visual field. This interplay of image and text gestures towards the partial articulation and simultaneous concealment of traumatic events, reflecting the inherent difficulty of rendering such experiences fully legible.
Fluorescent paint, perceptible only in darkness, operates metaphorically as a material manifestation of suppressed or ‘invisible’ histories, which emerge intermittently in the absence of dominant illumination. Living Stranded thus creates a liminal prosthetic space, inviting viewers to confront and intra-act with the unsettled spectres of everyday violence and silence.
運用甲骨文圖像的特性隱晦地暗示照片中正在發生的無聲痛苦。這些無法言喻的事情時常發生於沒有其他人在場深夜，同時也暗示著這些秘密被藏在黑暗之中，我使用在黑暗中會發光的螢光塗料改寫甲骨文訊息，揭露出平常被隱藏的痛苦。
