Then begin with an airline ticket 就從一張飛機票說起

Then begin with an airline ticket, 2013
Mixed media
Dimension variable

It all begins with an airline ticket…

I didn’t set out to test any guiding principle in the text—I just grabbed my ticket, some stationery, and money, then hit the streets, letting my senses roam within the frameworks of modern civilization. What first caught my eye were the two circles a flight attendant had casually ticked on the ticket.

Every piece in this series is made in public spaces or borrowed from other people’s environments. I wander, eat, rest—and whenever an idea strikes, I dive straight into making. What materials do I need? What should I buy? By limiting myself to the immediacy of daily life, I became intensely aware of how a “sketch” can unfold into countless forms in this context.

Whenever we talk about sketching as a process that channels streams of consciousness into bodily reaction, it often ends up as an expression of inner chaos or ineffable mental states. Such interpretations stress the purity and distillation of the self—a myth I’ve long regarded as misleading. Within the constraints of text, autonomy, tools, and technique, how many ideas truly originate from within, untouched by external biases?

So: it starts with a plane ticket. My current residency in Taipei becomes the premise for a chain of conceptual leaps and shifts in medium—moving from a single point to many—as I attempt to navigate the biases of text and the murky terrain of personal autonomy. Will this experiment reveal only the manifestations of habit? An incoherent string of works? Or a method capable of repeatedly overturning itself to open new perspectives?

If sketching can elevate our most basic intuition and sensitivity, then I’ll let go even further, allowing my feelings to roam free—and perhaps reach something meaningful. And the moment I try to pin down a definition, it seems to drift ever further away.

就從一張飛機票說起……

我沒有特地為驗證文本的導引性想過具體的什麼，就只帶著機票、文具，以及金錢走到街上，在現代文明的種種設定下，讓感覺自己去跑。最初讓我注意到的，是機票上空姐隨意勾下的兩個圓圈。

這裡的作品都製作自街上或他人的空間裡。街頭閒逛、進食、休息，想到點子創作便隨即動手。要用什麼；要買什麼，就局限日常生活，使我更在意｢素描」在此語境下能引申及體現的各樣形式。

每當談到素描作為一種透過意識流傳達訊息至肢體產生反應這過程，往往最終歸結成表達自我紊亂或難以名狀的精神層次。對於此解讀，箇中會強調自我的純粹與提煉，我一直視之為迷思。在文本、自主、工具與技術的局限間，到底有多少想法及意念是徹底由一己衍生，而不受外在環境的偏向所引導？

就從一張飛機票說起，把現下在台北駐留的經歷作為引旨，開展連串由點到多點的思想跳躍和媒介變換，以嘗試觸及文本的偏向及個人的自主中像是無法釐清的領域。實驗最後可證的僅是習慣的顯現？是無法貫穿的一系列創作？還是能多次推翻自我開闢新視角的方法？

如果素描能把最根本的直觀及敏銳提升，我會更放手讓感覺去跑，然後達到一些東西。當意圖給這個詞下定義，它便好像越離越遠。