Shoulder to Shoulder 肩擦肩

Shoulder to Shoulder, 2006~23

Remnants of previous artwork, digital printings on photopaper, acrylic panel, plastic bowls, garbage bags, plywood, wooden battens, F-clamps and mixed media

Dimension variable

This city is populated by archetypes of outlines. Shops and streets; avenues and roads, red, yellow, and green; train cars, platforms, and ticket readers, and turnstiles. 

People cross paths, brushing shoulders, as though damp matches trying to get lit. 

Cold yet dry.

The demarcation between the real and the unreal fades. 

The mannequins in shop windows tire occasionally, lying down on a bed of broken glass that traverses two worlds.

How does one cross over? Or take a detour?

People have forgotten how to pass through when the traffic lights are off. 

A little distracted.

The gleaming metropolis reflects off our skin and wedding dress.

Honesty, bashfulness, eros, scars – all wrapped up.

With time, the information and imagination overload from any one person, event, or object can implode. 

The discharge, wounded, struggle forward to form a river of blood flowing in all directions. 

Fragments of faith once held now left at home – how do they connect from then to now?

The baggage deep in storage similarly stands shoulder to shoulder. 

Fresh water flows from wounds. 

Try to scoop it up in your palms.

Can you catch it between your fingers? A scoop, after another absentminded scoop.

城市四處是邊線明確的典範。

店與街；路與道；紅黃綠；車卡月台入閘機。

人來人往，肩擦肩像劃濕掉的火柴。

冷漠卻烘乾。

實景或虛空勾劃的邊線蓄勢由實轉虛。

櫥窗的人偶累了，倒臥橫跨兩個空間的玻璃碎床。

目下是跨越？是翹路？

人們忘記交通燈沒亮起時該如何通過。

稍稍出神。

光潔亮麗的大都會物料映照自我的皮囊與嫁衣裳。

赤誠、羞澀、情色、傷痕，被裝束包裹。

每單一人事物隨歲月及日常載具傾倒大量訊息和想像能撐破肚皮。

溢出的像破敗的殘件負傷前行交會成無形的血河四通八達。

擱在房子原有的信念碎片如何接軌當下？

肩擦肩同樣是儲物房深處互相依傍的包袱。

新的完整，是傷痕累累的流水。

伸手探知在掌心內勉強一瓢。

指間是否趕及留下？一瓢，不經意又取一瓢。