Rolling Time

Huge rocks roll down from mountains to rivers and seas, shaped into pebbles by the relentless lashing of the waves, constantly evolving under the force of the sea. These represent mountains, seas, past, and future, with time and space continuously interweaving to create the landscapes we see at the intersection of land and sea, riverbeds and headwaters, solids and liquids, stranded and adrift. The installation, made from various polystyrene pieces collected from the outlet of the Zengwen River and wool felt, resembles rocks eroded by time, marking the traces of nature and human activity. Through the “Felt a Stone Workshop,” the public was invited to co-create, with the layered wool undergoing a transformative process of friction, pressure, and felting by many hands. Resembling shallow water, the handcrafted carpet resulted in a personal and collective dialogue and interweaving, in response to the blending and felt-like state between nature, time, and life. Participants of KANG Ya-chu’s “Felt a Stone Workshop” : WANG Ting-yi, LU Huai-yan, ZHOU Yan-jun, ZHOU Yan-xi, SHI Mei-lan, HONG Jin-huang, GAO Yu-shan, ZHANG Yu-xuan, ZHANG Chen-sa, ZHANG Jun-ming, ZHANG Yu-cheng, CHEN Yi-jun, CHEN Chun-yu, CHEN Yao-ning, CHEN Jing-qi, LIU Xuan-tong, CAI Yun-rong, ZHENG Yi-rong, JIAN Chen-yang, JIAN Qiong-ying, YAN Zi-wei.

Born in Taipei, KANG Ya-chu graduated from the Fiber Group of the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts, and the Department of Sculpture, National Taiwan University of Arts. Her works explore the modernity of national identity, ethnic culture, textile history, and mysticism in various global regions, and how urbanization changes tradition, knowledge, and economic development. She is the author of Textile Maps 1, 2, 3.