Single channel video on phone, shirts and a transparent trolley luggage
80(H) x 52(W) x 23(D)cm
video: http://vimeo.com/185332781, 1min50s
A box in storage, a bag in hand—filled with daily necessities and keepsakes. From border crossings and boarding gates to temporary stays, each step unfolds within a realm we know we cannot linger in. Beyond home, beyond borders, every moment is a decision between departure and return. Looking back at the scenery along the way, the path home is shaped by capital and order. Dazzling goods and services soothe desire, yet beneath their labels lie hidden regulations and power structures that suppress its other side.
Is it comforting to be lost between the values of the individual and the system? As a child, I saw mountains up close and cities from afar. Growing up, I watched the land transform into tangible patterns of modern regulation. Later, traveling abroad for work, I looked down from the sky and saw the edges of airspace—how many species, territories, and borders have I truly crossed? Between old and new, urban and rural, departure and return, ancient and modern waystations have mapped out standardized routes of transit. Yet the differences in culture and governance spark new imaginings of familiar places in the mind.
These new imaginings help us see more clearly the blind spots lurking in the layered complexity of human thought. And so I ask myself: what use is the dragon hiding in deep water now?
Let us sing praises to this age of peace and prosperity—turning all forbidden zones into beautiful pictures.
寄倉存一箱，手提挽一包，盛載日用品和紀念品，從過境、登機，到入住，待於終究不能久留的領域。家以外，邊界以外，每一刻，都是去留間的抉擇。回頭看沿路風景，歸途被資本與秩序引導，眼花繚亂的商品及服務總是撫慰慾望，然而標示又暗藏的法規及權力同時壓抑慾望的另一端。
迷失於個體與體制相異的價值觀好嗎？小時候近看見山，遠看見城；長大後見土地因發展成更實體的現代規範樣式；至工作機會出境外遊，登上機從天空俯瞰見領空目及處，實質跨越多少物種、陣地及國界？新舊間；城鄉間；去留間，古今驛站疏理出各地統一的來往方式，卻因文化及政體制度異同激活了腦海內故地新的想像。新的想像予以更看清人類複雜思路不同層面螫伏的盲點，繼而不禁捫心自問，此刻潛龍何用？
