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More is Less: Bittersweetness
​時間之漬:悲欣

More is Less: Bittersweetness
​Single channel Video, Commission
《時間之漬:悲欣》
單頻道錄像,委託創作
3840x1408 LED Wall
13'25"
2025

​Exhibited at Walking Their Own Paths: Women Calligraphers in Contemporary Taiwan
Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, Taoyuan City, Taiwan 
自由自在:台灣當代女性書藝展, 橫山書法藝術館, 桃園市, 臺灣
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At the invitation of curator Professor Lu Hui-wen, I have created a site-specific video work for the electronic wall in Building C of the Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center. Extending the aesthetic of my 'More is Less' series, the piece integrates calligraphic characters that evolve into spreading dots, lines, and layers of accumulated ink. This transition into abstract imagery offers a contemporary re-interpretation of the traditional concept: 'Calligraphy into Painting.
On cicada-wing Xuan paper, I repeatedly brush the characters Bei-Xin (Bittersweetness, Joy and Sorrow), progressively obscuring them with countless dots and lines until the text dissolves into illegibility. Each stroke—every point and line—is captured through stop-motion photography and edited into a video work. The viewer's gaze travels from an initial overview of calligraphic structure to a microscopic, translucent space revealed through a gradual zoom-in on the overlapping brushstrokes. This process marks a temporal evolution from "calligraphic space" to "painterly space," where calligraphy is transfigured into abstraction. Through the accumulation of ink, the text undergoes a transformation from "manifestation" to "concealment." This work is a fusion of linguistic meaning and existential philosophy. The video captures the increasing blurring of life as time unfolds. Each layer of ink mirrors the accumulation of years; a blank sheet of paper is a metaphor for a human life. As memories pile up, life becomes filled, and the remaining "empty space" of one's days gradually diminishes.

受策展人盧慧紋教授之邀,針對橫山書藝館C棟電子牆創作特殊尺寸的錄像,從「時間之漬」系列風格延伸,將書法文字置入,再蔓延點線積墨,流變為抽象畫面,形成「書法入畫」的另一種當代詮釋。
在蟬翼宣上以毛筆重複書寫「悲欣」二字,再以無數的點線不斷覆蓋,直至文字漸漸淹沒難以辨認。將此每個筆墨點線的過程格拍,再後製剪輯成錄像,從初始觀看文字書寫的間架空間,到最後推進(zoom in)畫面以使觀者可以看到筆墨點線交疊細部所形成的的通透空間,這是從文字結字空間的綜觀轉向墨筆空間的微觀。筆觸促使觀看的推演,使書法空間向繪畫空間轉變,書法在筆觸的堆疊中形成抽象的畫面;也在時間筆漬的堆疊推演過程中,看到墨筆的深淺變化。同時作品也具有以下理念:
 一、從意涵的角度:「時間之漬:悲欣(More is Less: Bittersweetness)」之作也在影射人生歲月,英譯主標「More is Less」(多即少),即以一張宣紙隱喻一個人的人生,出生時是一張白紙,在日積月累的時間(點漬)堆積中,所剩的歲月(留白)也越來越少。作品副標借弘一法師臨終前所寫「悲欣交集」之「悲欣(Bittersweetness)」二字來隱射生命的樣態,我以淡墨草書二字,再以無數點漬堆積其上,俗話說「時間會沖淡一切」,在時間的堆積推進中,一切事物、記憶終將被淹沒、模糊化。
二、從歷史的角度:「以書入畫」從元代開始,是對於書法筆法介入山水畫中的筆墨美學,以另一種方式詮釋。而此處則將書寫文字以千點萬漬轉化為我的「時間之漬」,亦連結對應於傳統山水畫常使用的「積墨法」,不同於傳統「積墨法」所追求的積厚而濃、重、黑的墨性美學,「時間之漬」反而在不斷點漬層疊堆積的深邃層次中表現出積厚而輕、透、薄的墨性差異。「時間之漬」呈現「積墨法」的當代變繹,同時也在墨點與筆線的完形與碎形間,解構與再建構間架空間。
三、從物性的角度:「時間之漬」關注的既是積墨法的時間堆疊本質,也是揭示其過往不被關注的空間特質。而其時間性與空間性透過逐格拍攝紀錄點線墨漬的堆積過程,將原本在平面成品中不可見的積墨時間過程,變為可見,以揭顯積墨在熟蟬翼宣紙上的物性自身,以及那向來被隱蔽忽略的墨性變化之時間特質。而藉現代媒體科技後製成動畫以放大細部,在微觀中可見其筆痕相互交疊出輕盈、通透的漬痕層次空間,至此,積墨技法不再作為輔助造型賦形功能的再現工法的配角,而是翻轉成為表現時間與空間的物性主角。
四、從反思的角度:書法的文字在書寫後又再度被無數的點線淹沒抹去,其實也象徵我一向對傳統筆墨存在著既黏著又離散的態度,既無法不正視其存在,又想將之予以顛覆、抹去,這種既肯認又否定的狀態,是我對傳統書畫文化進行反思的一貫做法。
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Exhibition Brochure Essay by Curator Lu Hui-wen
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    • The Ice Ink Project 冰墨
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