AUNTIE'S KITCHEN

The kitchen holds the memories and stories of a family. It has been 30 years since my aunt and uncle's family immigrated to Canada, and life has continued from the warmth of Taiwan to the strangeness of the North. Here, there are no more scallion pancakes at the end of the alley and familiar Taiwanese greeting, but what remains the same is the laughter and conversation coming from the kitchen and the purest taste of home. My aunt's kitchen has a western center island design, with clean white cabinets surrounded by dark marble, giving off an old-fashioned western atmosphere. The ingredients in the cabinets and the table decorations are interesting in that they are different in style from the background but blend perfectly to create a unique cultural colour - an Easton glow that blossoms in Western culture.
Pounded garlic, homegrown cucumbers and chrysanthemums, and small boxes of dried shrimp were treasures I found in the kitchen. Their slices bring out their purest nature. With the principle of mirroring as an idea, the work represents the memory entanglement and cultural meaning that the same ingredient, or even family, is bred in two different time and space contexts, which are unique and powerful. The black ink and colours that jump out from it show such complex feelings and memories. Under such a context, simple ingredients are like a kaleidoscope, offering different appearances and surprises. Auntie's kitchen is a concentration of Eastern culture struggling, thriving and blossoming in a Western environment.

廚房，承載著一個家的回憶和故事。舅媽一家移民到加拿大已30年，從人情濃厚的台灣到陌生的北國，生活延續著。這裡，沒有巷口那間蔥油餅，少了熟悉的甲霸沒，但不變的是廚房傳來的嬉笑與談話聲和飄來那最純粹的家鄉味。舅媽的廚房有著西方中島式設計，潔白的櫥櫃被深色的大理石襯托著，散發著舊式西方氣息。櫥櫃裡的食材和桌上的擺飾很有意思，它們的風格和背景不同，但卻完美地融合在一起，形成了一種獨特的文化色彩--在西方文化中綻放的東方光彩。
搗碎的大蒜，自家種的黃瓜和菊花，還有小盒的乾蝦米，是我在廚房中尋到的寶藏。它們的切片凸顯了最純粹的本質。以鏡像原理為發想，反映出同一個食材，甚至是家庭，在兩個不同時空背景下孕育出的記憶糾葛和文化意蘊，它們是獨特，是有力道的。墨水與黑墨中跳出的色彩便展現出這樣複雜感受和記憶。在這樣的脈絡下，簡單的食材如萬花筒體現出不同的樣貌甚至是驚喜。舅媽的廚房，便是在西方環境中掙扎、茁壯、綻放的東方文化的濃縮。