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稻田的味道，2021，錄像裝置，彩色無聲，02:00
紐約魯賓美術館訂製
The Smell of Rice Field, 2021, video installation, 02:00,
Rubin Museum commission
當談到氣味時，
我就會回想起稻田的記憶，稻田的香味。
1999年，我大學剛畢業，
我被分配到偏遠地區的一所學校任教一年。
在那裡度過的一年，給自幼在城市里長大、讀書的我帶來非常不同的日常體驗。
那所學校坐落在被群山與稻田環抱的小鎮，
我仍然記得那裡的一切都是和諧的。
我從高中開始就有點抑鬱，總覺得自己內心很混亂。
然而，在這個小鎮生活了幾個月後，我的思緒越來越清晰。
覺得自己就像一瓶淨水，雜質都沉在底部。
大自然的某種東西觸動了我的心，現在回想起來，這就是我成為一名藝術家的原因。
這段經歷的記憶至今仍是我藝術實踐的源泉。
每當我聞到稻田的味道，我感到平靜和喜悅。
When talking about smell,
I recall my memory in rice field,
the smell of the rice field.
In 1999 just after I graduated from the university,
I was assigned to teach at a school in remote area for one year.
Since I grew up and studied in the city,
the year I spent there brought me a very different daily experience.
The school is situated in a town surrounded by mountains and rice fields,
and I still remember everything there moves in a sense of harmony.
I had been kind of depressed since my high school and always felt myself chaotic inside. However, after living in this town for few months,
my mind was getting clearer.
I felt myself was like a bottle of clean water with those dusts sinking in the bottom.
Something from nature touched my heart, and now looking back,
it is the reason why I became an artist.
The memory of this experience is still the source of my artistic practice.
Every time I smell Rice Field,
I feel calm and joy.