Printmaking

Everything can be the container that bears memory. Our human body carries memory, they comes and goes, they appears and stays. Have you recall a time when we pass a door, or enter a new space, our memory starts a self clean-up process. That’s called Doorway Effect. While walking back to the old room doesn’t recall memory. Whether we wish to perform the cleaning action voluntarily or unwillingly, our brain helps us maintain greater capacity for better workspace. But when we notice the forcefulness, how do us feel? Regret? Annoyed? Relief? Or feeling grateful?
 
So the theme of this quarter’s work is memory. In the digital world, when everything can be pixelated, only the memory that I carve in lines and print out the clues or witness of that they ever exists, and they can be reproduced in different forms. Or memory will disappear as my brain cells die.
 
Let’s start with this. Sometimes I look at my laundry machine, where I always lost one side of my socks. I was wondering: you ate my sock, and did you eat my memory? Maybe the door of the laundry machine, is the door that leads to forgetfulness. All the items illustrated are the toys that I owned in my childhood, and the apartment we lived were torn down due to civil planning purpose. They are gone in real life, but they stay in my memory.