2021
Working with painting, drawing, printmaking(intaglio), papermaking, and bookmaking.
HYSTERIA
Visual Art Book
29.7 x 21.0 x 1.0 cm
50 Editions
The mechanism of hysteria is due to the suppression of a memory (object image), which makes the emotion linked to the image detached, unable to be removed, and converted into physical symptoms. Therefore, the suppressed representation is retrieved through recollection, and the representation is linked to the literal representation by turning it into words to reverse the formation mechanism of hysteria, so that emotion can be eliminated through language.
This project seeks to piece together some verses that I subjectively think of as “hysteria” to form a new poem, and embodies the “hysteria”, to show that when people fall into this state, in the incompatibility with “self”, a new understanding of verses.
SELF-HARM
Intaglio on Handmade Paper
21.0 x 14.8 cm (each paper)
A horrible thing in self-harm is that the behavior of self-harm will become a habit. At the beginning, it is performed under the feeling of “unknowingly”. When it is noticed, it has become a daily behavior, and it has entered into the vicious circle of self-loathing and self-harm. Although self-treatment is one of the effects of self-harm, but in this process, the brain will release an anesthetic substance (enkephalin). People who repeat self-harm are just like opioid-dependent and heroin-dependent patients, rely on the irritation of this substance. Because of the stimulation caused by the production of enkephalins in the brain, it is not easy to stop self-harm.
Why haven’t these people entered the public view? Because the social welfare mechanism is not in place, groups about selfharm lack the attention of all sectors of society and the entire medical system. There is no channel that can enter the public’s view for everyone to see this group. The purpose of this project is arouse the attention of the trend of public opinion and the attention of all sectors of society to this vulnerable group.
