Taiwan Cider-Salt Yard Recall｜Kaohsiung Metro

“Taiwan Cider” takes images from the past as its artistic medium. The essence is to ensure viewers recall ancient memories and focus on sharing conscious identity about Salt Yard. “Salt Yard Recall” flash back to the prosperity of the salt flats that existed in Kaohsiung since 50 years ago as its point of origin. In this context, “Recall” refers to arise the past of ordinary life style. The people seen in the picture are based on old photographs of local salt flats. Although it retains their original appearance but the features have been changed. In the background those old buildings are no longer exist, such as Kaohsiung theater, old market Hall, Kaohsiung City Hall (today’s Museum of History), Kaohsiung State Building, Laohsing-ye Cooperative Bank and harbor warehouses etc. This work is based on a “post- modernism” idea to create a montage scene, using computer graphic technique to combine life styles of different time. The stage-like effect is to create a sense of unadorned simplicity, a unified aesthetic that blends together historical diversity. This work attempts to take the remnants of collective memories and to capture the glory of faded days. Let the “public subject of history” becomes interesting attention.