Artwork description:

In my childhood, I remember that I often move from home to home , the addition of all these experiments sometimes made me feel like unrooted and built in me a strong and intimate relationship between me and spaces surround.
In my work, I use plants as a metaphor of memories. When a there is a new-born child in the family, the eldest plant a seed in their garden and hope that the plants can grow with their children.
I think a « domestic plant » is like people, a seed that grow in a pot, as far as the roots expands and fill the soil, our memories and emotions mix up with our spaces and became inseperable.
When I leave Taiwan, my home island to Reunion Island, on the other side of earth. I started to think what represent « home » to me. When children draw theirs houses, there is most of time a clear and simple shape. In my dreams those shapes from my memories are interiors shapes assembles and disassembled like a perpetual patchwork.
When I saw outside shapes of houses , I see it like a skin and It fertilize my imagination of what can be my own representations of inside .
An island is for me like a home on a larger scale . Physically isolated from the rest , it forms is own space built from common memories . A shelter that we share . I feel the island is like the interior essence and heart of home , peaceful and secure like a mother’s belly.
My process of printmaking gives me more time to think and collect my thoughts. I’m fascinated by the space created by the copper plate. The shape of the plate may have a dialogue with the paper. The large white space reflects as a pure, silent and deep sign.

Materials used:

Metal plate, Papier Hahnemühle 300g/m², ink charbonnel

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