我有所念人 One More Time, I Love You
2023
Approximately 8.25 x 12.5 x 10.5 inch
Ink and Cyanotype on Unryu paper, Shin inbe paper, dyed Tosa paper, Gampi paper, Stonehenge paper; satin threads on silk organza; glass beads, acrylic, and book boards
Edition size: 7, and 1 (with structured box)
I made this artist’s book as my Printmaking MFA thesis book at Rhode Island School of Design. The artist’s book consists of high, tiered walls that enclose a spacious main house with a wide rood and a courtyard surrounded by four-sided eaves in front of the main house. This type of wall has a particular name, called a “step mountain wall” (叠落山墙), which is higher than the roof of the building. Its form is a tiered staircase shape that falls in layers with the variation of roof height. The courtyard inside the wall is the gathering place of the water of the whole building. The Chinese believe that water is spiritual. I put all the thoughts and feelings from the long process of this entire thesis project into an artist’s book form. The gatehouse here are silent as a spectator and recorder. My [obsession] is wrapped in blue-tiled white walls that collect all the time and memories in the courtyard, as well as all the rainwater and tears that fall from the sky.