Every Wednesday Is a Brand New Day
每週三都是閃亮嶄新的一天
2020-2022
2020 Created for Art, Space and Nature MFA 2nd year solo project,
showcased in "Marking Time" Solo Exhibition, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
In 2022, the work had been developed into a new version which includes the story about artist's life under lockdown in Edinburgh during COVID, as part of "Never the Same Forest" Solo Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan.
2020
Installation 裝置
Collected Items, Letterpress Printing on Craft Paper (W:29.7cm, H:21cm for each piece),
Dimensions Variable
There is a short moment on Wednesday morning
Everything is spotless clean
Until someone take the first step out
Then we start to wait
For the next Wednesday
Every Wednesday morning, a piece of paper is slipped into my mailbox claiming the cleanliness of stairs in my building. If I leave my flat early enough, I get to sniff the smell of surface cleaner and step onto the damp floor. Week after week, I start to look forward to these small papers and the upcoming of a spotless stairway. This work is a restructuring of common items such as the tags from cleaning company, A4 craft papers, and cotton threads that hold them together. By combining these items, I attempt to change the meaning they represent. A tag can be the official announcement of a new time cycle, and the date printed on A4 paper can be the mark of art time.
在我愛丁堡的住處，每週三早上會有人來打掃樓梯間，這時我的信箱就會出現像這樣的小紙條。一打開門，清潔劑的香味便撲鼻而來，地面與樓梯扶手也會亮晶晶的，一塵不染。我每週都非常期待這一刻的到來，然而當我踏出門的瞬間，如同時間暫停般的完美狀態便開始被打破，梯間逐漸變髒、變髒、變髒，直到週三再度來到，這個輪迴再度開始，而我再度開始我的期待。
2022
On-site Installation 現場裝置
Collected Items, Letterpress Printing on Craft Paper
Dimensions Variable
The pandemic had become out of control two weeks after this work was exhibited. Lockdown had been declared, and we started our life of working-at-home. These small pieces of papers had disappeared too. It was already June 2020 when a new piece of paper showed up again. I noticed the layout of it was changed, and they put their website on it! I was excited to see my little old friend back in my mailbox and was happy to see the cleaning company is still there after this dreadful pandemic.
這個作品展出後的兩週，由於疫情爆發，蘇格蘭宣佈封城。我們開始居家生活，清潔人員的小紙條也就此消失。直到2020年六月底的某一天，我又在信箱裡看到它，而且還改變排版，增加了網址，看來儘管在疫情期間沒辦法出來打掃，清潔公司也並沒有閒著。拿著那張新的小紙條，我好像見到了許久未見的老友，很開心得知他們經過疫情依然好好活著。
Documentation Photos Credit: Harmony Jane Bury (2020), Tatsuro Mizutani (2022), Hsin Shyu.