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Live collage at Copeland Park Unit 8
2025
2025
Fragments of a Tea Table began as an exploration of food as a subject, not only in relation to consumption, but as a lens through which identity, culture, home, space, relationships, and human behaviour can be examined. I became increasingly drawn to the concept of tea time.Iy carries memory and ritual; it reflects how we live, gather, and relate to one another. I come from Taiwan, where my cultural identity has been deeply influenced by Taiwanese, Japanese traditions. Tea has always been part of my family life. For me, tea is associated with slowness, attentiveness, and shared time withe other. After moving to the UK, encountering British tea culture prompted me to reflect on how tea is practiced differently across Taiwan, Japan, and the UK. While the forms, vessels, spatial arrangements, and gestures of tea vary between these cultures, the underlying purpose remains similar: tea time becomes a moment of pause, a social ritual that allows harmony, connection, and inner calm to emerge.
This reflection led me to the Japanese tea philosophy Ichigo Ichie (一期一会), meaning “one encounter, one chance.” In Japanese, The concept can be traced back to the 16th century through the teachings of tea master Sen no Rikyū, reminding us that each gathering is unique and will never be repeated in the same way again. This idea resonates deeply with my practice. Tea time becomes both an act of socialising and an act of reflection — a shared yet fleeting moment.
By using paper collage and colour as my primary visual tools, the work remains rooted in illustration as a form of visual storytelling. Collage allows me to explore colour and composition in a direct and intuitive way. Without applying pigment, colour exists as a given material, allowing my focus to shift towards placement, rhythm, and balance. Each cut and movement responds to the previous one, creating a sequence of visual decisions that cannot be fully planned or repeated
During the exhibition opening, I presented the work through a live performance in which I created the collage in front of the audience. This moment embodied the philosophy of Ichigo Ichie — a single, unrepeatable encounter shared between myself, the viewers, and the unfolding image. The audience did not simply observe a finished illustration, but witnessed its formation in real time, shaped by presence, attention, and duration. Once the performance ended, the encounter could not be repeated in the same way again.The live performance expands the work beyond the page, allowing it to exist as a shared visual experience between artist and audience.In this context, creating the art work becomes a experience rather than a static image. Colour, shape, and composition function as a shared visual language through which connection is formed between artist and audience. The act of viewing becomes participatory, grounded in the awareness that this moment — like a tea gathering — exists only once. Through this live encounter, Fragments of a Tea Table invites viewers to slow down, be present, and recognise the quiet significance of experiencing something together, here and now.
Residency Project at ArtHub studio London
2024
3 days residency Created an exhibition in 3 days inspired by the surroundings in Deptford high street
As I tried to find some material and ideas about what I’m gonna make,I found 3 cats instead. The studio was beside Deptford market and I was attracted by all the colours I saw in there.I walked into every store and collected the colours object, met a really nice owner that gave me a piece of yellow wood board , a kind lady asked me if I like peanut, an owner that hates me for paying with card, a nice owner who found a vase while struggling to pick a fake flower for me and an owner of a dragon statue shop that sticks cake photos beside him. I went back to the space, placed every object I found onto the wood board, combined with some lines to record my path. The people in the market somehow participated in the piece and I brought the colours of the market into the space.
1 colourful easter egg
2 yellow tomato
3 yellow wood sponsored by a very nice owner
4 coral net
5 unknown white fruit
6 fake green flowers
7 unknown black plastic found by @_jieshin_
8 colour clay