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The latest artwork draws upon the land and cultural roots for inspiration. The artworks serve as a carrier for life experiences from working with and carrying on the Amis bark cloth craft, and re-interprets them through the Embracing the Roots, Tremor: Powerful, Awakening: Return, and Enlightenment: Peace series of artworks. What I think of bark cloth gradually changed over time through my university graduation exhibit and the Play Bark series created as an artist in residence at Beinan Cultural Park in 2012, Kirin for the Shihsanhang Museum of Archeology in 2014, A Different Life with the Same Heritage as a village artist in residence in Thailand in 2017, and finally You are so Beautiful to My Eyes in 2018. I began reflecting on my creative process and channeled the resulting energy into re-construction. I explored my works over the years through the creation of Recall and Reconstruction. I experienced my own state of mind during the creative process once again through my physical senses and memories in order to explore the relationship between bark cloth, land, ethnic culture and traditional beliefs, and see the process through which I established my own ethnic identity.
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