CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGY
Flow as the Weave of the Bands
Cotton thread, wood, Photo printed and mixed media
2023
The installation presented in the work is based on the Hakka weaving bands in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The traditional patterns from Hakka culture such as flower, stone, wave and spider are woven into those bands, and it created the idea of the river and ocean by combining indigo dyeing and tassels with textile. Here, using the culture of doing the laundry in public as a metaphor, dyeing becomes the process and time of migration, marriage, and reproduction. It is like the patterns and continuity produced by the interweaving of warp and weft of bands, bringing out the flow of time and space.