Title: Chain Locket

Year: 1993-2022

Medium:  artist hair, seashells, old cookie tin box, old notes, paint, metal hook, color prints

Dimensions:  sculpture 5"x7"x47", and installation adjustable according to the space

This artwork is the origin of everything for me. Hair and seashells are symbols that frequently appear in my works. Besides the symbolic meanings shared across cultures, such as representations of female reproductive organs, wildness, enchantment, talismans, and more, they mysteriously held the same significance in my personal life before undergoing cultural symbol baptism. This piece is my first intuitive creation after transitioning from a nine-to-five office job to full-time artistry in 2016, and I struggled to name it. In 2022, I found seashells and hair preserved from my fifth-grade year in an old cookie tin, linking everything together. I realized that my subjectivity had been castrated long before I knew what had happened. I had been suppressing an unknown anger all along. Women's hair and animal mane represent wildness and sexuality, prompting schools to impose hair regulations. The purple shell coincidentally came into my possession at the moment when sexual awareness entered my life, so I carefully concealed it in a box. In this highly controlled society, everything related to sex is considered taboo. Especially when it comes to female sexuality, our bodies and consciousness are meant to be degraded, controlled, and ultimately conquered. We are treated like objectified beasts of burden and commodified livestock, devoid of subjectivity and desire.

名稱：鎖鍊

年代: 1993-2022

尺寸：雕塑高120 x 長13 x 寬18 cm, 裝置依空間而定

材質：藝術家頭髮、貝殼、舊餅乾盒、老字條、金屬鉤、壓克力顏料、照片

這件作品一切的原點。頭髮跟海螺是我的作品中很常出現的符號，除了在普遍人類文化中共同的象徵涵義：例如女性生殖器、野性的、魔性的、信物、、、等等，它們在我的個人生命經驗裡也神秘地在我還未經文化符號洗禮前自動產生了同樣的意義。這是2016年我從朝九晚五上班族轉為專職創作的第一件直覺式的作品，我一直無法為它命名。2022年我在舊餅乾盒裡找到小學五年級留存的貝殼和頭髮，我才將一切連結起來，明白了自己的主體性早在知道發生了什麼事以前就遭閹割，我一直順從、壓抑著滿腔不知名的怒火。女人的頭髮、動物的鬃毛是野與性的，於是學校發明了髮禁。紫色的芋螺在我生命中出現性意識的那一刻正好交到我手中，於是我小心翼翼地藏在盒子裡。在這個高度控制的社會裡，關於性的一切，都是不被允許的禁忌。尤其是女性的性，我們的身體以至意識都是該被貶低、控制、進而征服的，我們就像工具化的駝獸和食品化的牲畜，沒有主體性與慾望。