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By the reason of my mother’s Taoism beliefs in my past life, my life has been bound with folk religions in Taiwan. After moving from my hometown Shuangxi to Hualian, the past I thought that should had been buried broke through the soil like sprouts unexpectedly, then I finally found out that everything has already occupied my life like roots. “Tracing a Living-River with Trepidation” is the self-asking process through my past life experiences and scattered memories. By doing the works of memory narrative passages and natural dyes, I was trying to tease my life’s context out and wondering to know why I am here and what the meaning of it is? In Walter Benjamin’s point, memories and experiences are truths to a person, they could identify an individual self. For me, the religious experiences in my life’s context are around the folk religion and temple gatherings, fulfilling the re-enchantment and traditional boundaries. the healing process and feelings. become the dynamic in creationmotivation ynamic in discussion of contemporary era. And I recounted this gloomy and shadowy memory through the natural dyeing craft and fabric, to try to heal myself. |