瘋人花 The Flower That Can Drive You Crazy
• coming soon!
• 2026, 青青藝廊 Chin Chin Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan
• Through flowers & tea, tiles & pots, all on an intimate scale, 瘋人花 The Flower That Can Drive You Crazy represents the flow of the grand scale of Taiwanese landscape from mountains to valleys to shoreline to the ocean, then back again through clouds. Across these places are the architectural interventions of culture, which ravage nature & are themselves ravaged by nature, eventually.
On the large scale of Taiwan’s wet mountainous landscape, flows merge from tropical forest springs to mountain orchards to urban canals to delta farming to the Taiwan Strait. Architectural ceramics, mostly local red brick, direct the flow, submit to it, then like stubborn refractory re-emerge to maintain that flow. Rem Koolhaas says that what matter in architecture are the exits and entrances. This ranges from the grand scale of a harbor to the small scale of a tea service. Arguably the world’s most common product that shows the commonality of nature and culture, tea provides us a place to make everyday life extraordinary, to live up close in the charm of ceramics.
