Ai Chin Rao Taiwan
Caught in the Holes of the Net
As a Hakkanese, after Aichin met a Puyumayan sculptor, she married into Taitung and lived there happily. For Aichin, creation is the spiritual pursuit in returning to nature. Regardless of relationships between human beings, or between human beings and the land, when life becomes a game of consumption and pursuing newer stuff, things can go totally out of control. People are used to being bombarded with change in the modern civilization, yet they cannot perceive the uniqueness in every moment of nature. The intuitive change is full of mysterious power and at the same time eternal
As a Hakkanese, after Aichin met a Puyumayan sculptor, she married into Taitung and lived there happily. For Aichin, creation is the spiritual pursuit in returning to nature. Regardless of relationships between human beings, or between human beings and the land, when life becomes a game of consumption and pursuing newer stuff, things can go totally out of control. People are used to being bombarded with change in the modern civilization, yet they cannot perceive the uniqueness in every moment of nature. The intuitive change is full of mysterious power and at the same time eternal
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Title│Caught in the Holes of the Net
Media│steel rods, cotton threads, elastic fabric, fabric
From afar, it looks like a grayish white reef yet you will find out it is a cave reef made of woven wire and threads in a solid and latticed pattern. There are layers of nets with bits and pieces of the residency. So, is this tranquil space interlaced with reality and the otherness a trap? Or is it imagination drowning in a changing future? Or does it provide a space for women to store their crops the following spring, and become a fantastic landscape among the green paddies? The snapshots of life that Aichin captured in the cave, reflects the real lives of the village. They were the “now” when she took them, and also the future, and the past. She asked everyone who came into the cave “What does this cave of reality and otherness capture?”
Caught in the Holes of the Net
