記得As they can remember

As they can remember(installation view a)

記得As they can remember 

2015
樹樁 stump
舊式的木校椅在這學校中已不復在,那大概是什麼樣子的一把椅子?幾個那時在讀的舊生村民隱約記得。學校外圍附近有個大樹樁,一幅鐵絲網隨年月被那樹了進去,聽說那網就是不知何年的學校邊界。以那樹樁雕刻出舊生村民回憶中的舊校椅,一把用集體回憶造出來而且搬不走的新座椅。
Old wooden chairs have pasted away into the history along with this abandoned school. Nowadays, only a few alumni from the village can barely recall how those chairs look like. Over the years, a tree stump stands by the school and marks the school’s boundary. This on-site sculpture, which sculpted from the stump, acts as a monument for collective memory to the school.
As they can remember
chair grows from stump, link to the earth
As they can remember(working)
villagers giving opinions about the form of the chair according to their memories
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wire net(school’s old boundary)  was ‘eaten’ by the tree. This made the middle of the tree hollow and be decomposed.

 

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Passerby was telling children stories about school life in old days

 

the carving process