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Cicada toys, mechanical structure - designed by Christopher Towers ( @good_name_london )
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people usually tend to choose what we want to remember - and so, sometimes our memories wouldn’t accurately reflect what happened at that time or moment - we remember it as what we wanted it to be remembered

after went back to Taiwan for a month in last year - the feeling of ‘home’ was all over me for a while. London didn’t manage to cease me from thinking about home

the idea is simply started with a toy that i used to play when i was young - a toy you could probably still find in the street markets in Taiwan. it’s a toy that could create the sound of cicada - male cicada usually make noise in summer in order to attract the female - that’s the sound i would always think about in summer, the sound that carries the summer in Taiwan

hoping to recreate the space, the situation, the surrounding through the sound - the sound is no longer invisible - it becomes a space that allows people to interpret their own relations with cicada - and for me, this is the sound that reminds me of you


*specially thanks to Arieh Frosh ( @arieh.eh ) for encouraging me at the first place to work with something technical/digital - i was never good at it or liked it, and perhaps still is

Amba Sayal-Bennett ( @ambasayalbennett ) for introducing Chris to me - a life safer as always - v generous of you amba x

Christopher Towers ( @good_name_london ) for designing the structures within such short period of time but still be able to takecare all the details details

鄭忻如 ( @mei_ling_cheng ) for posting the toys to me x

this piece was showing in the group show “Magnified Ear 放大耳” back in early June 2023 - curated by Jingwen Weng ( @jingwenweng_ ) & Yang Li ( @happynoheya )


Installation images of 'Magnified Ear 放大耳', A.P.T Gallery, London, 2023. Pictures by Studio Adamson.

Mild steel tube, plastic
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each circle represents a person - the design is to reveal the pattern of the conversation - when they overlap, that’s how the connection begins

Mixed media
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an installation based on the video tape of my childhood - for me it’s still a bit fragmented tho, it’s hard to really recreate something in the past specially when you were in such early stage of life - my body, my sensation are probably just about to start learn to function