Introduction：
There are usually many farmers selling their agricultural products in the country side of Taiwan. Someday I just passed by this place and stopped in front of the cage. There was a chicken which would be slaughtered stuck his head out from the cage and gazed at me. Suddenly I remind a series of images which is related to the stray dogs that would be died in euthanasia. And some words which are no sense came into my mind at the same time, like "You do not kill the stray dogs but the chickens die because of you.", "Stray dogs shouldn't be killed but the chicken could die for its fate.", "Death could be as light as a feather or as heavy as a mountain." Meanwhile I had some faint feeling that there might be association between the sense of the messy thoughts at this moment and the recent series of creations of mine in theme. So risking the possibility of being expelled, I picked up the camera quickly and press the shutter.
I goole it after arriving home then I found the article - "生 殤相：流浪犬安樂死日最終肖像" which was shot by "杜韻飛" who is an author on Eslite Station. I was very impressive when I saw these images first time. The helpless and innocent faces on the stray dogs reflex to the situation they're going to be and touch the reader deeply. Someone may even rise his mercy of stray animals. But just below the same sky, some other groups of animal are also facing a similar situation like these stray dogs, maybe even worse. To these chickens, for example, I don't think they will be treated in euthanasia after the moment. Mostly they'll just touched by the knife on their neck, and then waiting to die slowly. I'm not challenging the issue whether the stray dogs should be euthanasia, captured or not. I just had some strange feelings of the contrast between the images of those stray dogs that would be died in euthanasia, and the chicken which stuck his head out from the cage and gazed at me. There are so many concepts seem contradictory but parallel. And they all still exist simultaneously in human world. Some animal conservation organizations may fight for the death of the stray dogs. But will vegetarian or religious organizations fight for the chicken? Does the weight of different being could be distinguished? Should the care and protection of beings be different just because of the different position of human? If beings can be divided into levels, how will human put our self and face the beings that are more advanced form someday? After organizing the thoughts caused by the gazing in that moment, I identified the concepts which could be alternative or isomorphese in it. And the concept is the theme of creations which I've been focusing on recently, so I put it as an introduction of this text.
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Main Text：
The picture should be the starting point of this series of creations. When this photo was taken, the relationship between each other was almost entirely separated just like the present in picture. The original situation should be under the same roof has been divided into two different windows slowly because of the changing in half year. The last connection between each other is subtle and fragile just like the dead branches in foreground. When will it break and separate completely? The initiative has been lost from Author.
The world in mirror is an alternative but isomorphic structure to the real world. Even if it's reversed around, it doesn't matter for the upcoming split hyperbolic intersection.
It's pure and simple farmland landscape in one side and some modern steel and concrete buildings in other side. Someone will turn left and someone will turn right at this junction. It may seem contradictory but actually the scene is included all in the city landscape which the radius isn't more than a hundred meter.
The underground channels in Taipei Main Station are more easily accessible. People shuttle here are moving away to their own direction busily every day. Station maintenance and management staffs decorate a photo layout elaborately on a side wall. But I think there are just a few people could stop and appreciate it carefully. Photographs are the crystal which is carrying time and space. They represent a piece of space-time for the past, so it could be also understood as an isomorphic structure of certain period of real space-time. It's a main pillar of the building which is very smooth and reflective in front of the photo layout, so it reflects an mirror image of the exhibiting photo. The passing traveler walks in the hurry, but meanwhile his current figure mirror on the smooth surface of the pillar with the photo which congeals the space-time for the past. So the contrast of old and new space-time images is integrated into another isomorphic structure.
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