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Since I was a child, I enjoyed listening to stories a lot. I was hugged by my mother from my memory of childhood and heard my elders chatting about those happened history. Even though numerous stories have been obscured, the habit of story listening has been preserved. I would paint it through my hands while listening those stories with pictures appearing in my mind. Eventually created "Kaesu'ay a kakaene A Perfect Meal", the family reminiscent story with the mortar and pestle of Amis as daily description of family interaction.
When I was in high school by 2012, my grandmother gave the hundred-year-old mortar and pestle to my mother. It became the initiation for me to understand the mother culture when I saw an authentic, enormous, and historical object appeared in front of my eyes, since I could only observe it through the collections of the museum when I grew up in the city.
These stories, which have never been recorded in writing have passed to my ears through the mouths of family elders. I conceive and imagine the scenes in the heard stories, and finally image them through hand-painting and present to our readers.
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