Kodak Charmera
“perhaps it is for making death so intimate that we find excrements so repulsive.”
—On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
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Open the Door and See the Mountain
2025. Single Channel Video
Open the Door and See the Mountain (開門見山) takes its title from a Chinese idiom meaning “to speak directly or get straight to the point.” This video piece was filmed inside a car on Yangmingshan, with the open car door and its frame acting as a steadfast threshold. Outside, the scene rapidly flashes between different landscapes, a mountain, bursts of sunlight, glimpses of passing temples, while the frame remains unchanged.
Each time the door opens, it enacts the ritual of arriving or seeking clarity, yet the outside world is always different.
The work explores how arrival is inherently uncertain: every attempt to “see the mountain” finds only continual transformation, turning the present into something fleeting and elusive, like a memory always just beyond reach.
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Between Paths
2025. Digital Photography
Growing up in a family deeply rooted in Taiwanese folk religion while attending a Catholic high school placed me at the intersection of two spiritual worlds. This duality created a quiet tension—one that has shaped much of who I am. My mother’s unwavering devotion contrasts with my stance of inquiry and skepticism. We seldom speak about it directly, yet the difference in our beliefs has formed a kind of silent dialogue, one felt more than articulated.
I consider myself agnostic—not from rejection, but from a desire for honest discovery. The mala beads I wear, blessed on my behalf by my mother, are a symbol of this journey. Though I choose not to participate in traditional worship, I carry them daily as both a connection to her and an emblem of my own evolving questions. They speak to a spiritual path defined by seeking, not certainty.
This project takes inspiration from the Eightfold Path, using it as a framework to reflect on how we might live ethically without relying on inherited doctrines. The meditative, repetitive act of bead-counting becomes a metaphor: How can we live with integrity while still searching for our truth? How do we honor our traditions while forging a spiritual identity of our own?
Between Paths becomes a bridge between my mother’s world and mine. Though our perspectives differ, we share a reverence for art—hers rooted in spirituality, mine in philosophical and sociological inquiry. Despite resisting temple rituals or Buddhist classes, I still asked her to bless my beads. In doing so, I acknowledged the complexity of our bond: I may not believe in the same way she does, but I believe in us.
This project is a quiet dialogue—within myself, and with her. It is an offering to those who wear sacred objects not out of allegiance, but as reminders of the questions that shape us. For those who find reverence not in definitive answers, but in the courage to keep searching.
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Untitled
2025. Digital Photography
I spilled the galaxy across the desk.
Ten dollars of light made the wood forget its veins.
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Ricoh GR3
“Derek”
Derek was sitting beneath the dappled shade of a tree at Providence’s India Point Park, having just arrived and unpacked his belongings. He leaned against the trunk, holding a well-worn book on macrobiotics. When I approached him and asked about the title, he invited me to sit down.
He explained how he first discovered macrobiotics through a chance encounter with his spiritual master thirty-five years ago, an teacher whose photograph he now keeps alongside a snapshot of his son and a small image of Krishna on his lanyard, next to his driver’s license.
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