I Wonder If You Are No Longer A “Nasty Boy”
不知你是否已不是個「討厭的青年」
A Place Called Home Series
Hand make wooden cratebox with backlit vinyl print light box, airport trolley, PVC travel cases with stickers, ratcheting strap
88×69×45 inch (224x176x115cm)
2022-2023

I Wonder If You Are No Longer A “Nasty Boy”
不知你是否已不是個「討厭的青年」
A Place Called Home Series
Inkjet print
2022
56×67 inch (142x170cm), edition of 3 (+2AP)
40×48 inch (100x122cm), edition of 9

Within the framework of Confucianism, leaving one’s home to settle elsewhere can be seen as a form of cultural betrayal or rejection. Yet, paradoxically, “escape” is the most celebrated theme in traditional Chinese painting—the “pride of the literati” who sought elevation and spiritual freedom away from society. This work inhabits the tension between these two opposing values: the guilt of leaving and the glory of the seeker.

The composition deliberately references Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. By replacing the 19th-century German Romantic figure with a Gen Z traveler standing over a modern cityscape, I inject a sense of future history into the narrative of “arriving in a new world.” It is an exploration of the nomadic identity—one that is physically strapped to an airport trolley, forever caught between the act of fleeing and the hope of elevation.

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