2022-2025 房子裡的樹 Trees in the House

「房子裡的樹」系列起源於 2022 年，我在台灣台中群島藝術園區駐村期間發展出的創作方向。當時，我開始關注城市中的樹木，特別是那些經常被修剪的樹體。這些樹木在修剪後，以獨特的方式持續生長，平滑的機械切割面上，新芽細微卻頑強地冒出。樹木在傷口的陪伴下依舊生生不息，這種生命的韌性深深觸動了我。
駐村期間，我經歷了一場手腕手術，手術中麻醉一度退去，在短短的幾分鐘內，我清晰地感受到皮膚與肌肉被切開的劇烈疼痛。術後，當我再次觀察那些被鋸斷的樹木傷口時，不禁聯想到自身的經驗，想像著它們如何承受這些傷害，仍在城市中努力生存。這種身體與植物創傷的連結，使我開始思考：如果人類與樹木融合，會形成什麼樣的生命形態？
這些思考逐漸演化成系列創作，我虛構出一種半人半樹的生物，作為作品的核心角色。它們承載著傷口、適應與重生的故事，象徵著生命如何在不斷變動與創傷中尋找存續方式。同時，我使用繡線以手動車縫技術在布面上繪圖，並以黑底負片的方式呈現，營造出一種非自然的人造物感。作品的展示形式參考古生物化石的記錄手法，彷彿以科學標本的方式將這些未知物種保存下來，為它們建立一個想像中的存在檔案。

Trees in the House began in 2022 during my residency at the Archipelago Art Residency in Taichung, Taiwan. At the time, I became fascinated by the trees in urban environments, especially those that were frequently pruned. After being cut back, these trees continued to grow in their own peculiar ways—tiny, resilient buds emerging from the smooth, mechanically cut surfaces. Their ability to persist alongside their wounds deeply moved me.
During the residency, I underwent wrist surgery. At one point, the anesthesia briefly wore off, and for a few minutes, I vividly felt the sharp pain of my skin and muscles being cut open. Afterward, as I observed the sawed-off wounds of trees again, I couldn’t help but relate them to my own experience—imagining how these trees endured injury yet continued to survive in the city. This connection between bodily and botanical trauma led me to wonder: What kind of life form might emerge if humans and trees were to merge?
These reflections gradually evolved into a series of works in which I created a fictional species of half-human, half-tree beings as the central figures. They carry stories of wounds, adaptation, and rebirth, symbolizing the ways life seeks continuity amid change and trauma. Using embroidery thread and manual sewing techniques to draw on fabric, I render these beings in a black, negative-like presentation to evoke an artificial, non-natural quality. The display format references the way paleontological fossils are documented, as if preserving these unknown species like scientific specimens—creating an imagined archive for their existence.