Life and time pass by like floating water. However, opposite to the fluid quality, the stone sculpture represents solidified memory for the sake of remembrance. This work combines the practicability of daily furniture and the beauty of stone sculpture in one piece.
Monuments, milestones, statues, and even gravestones, are all made of stones. It's because lives roll by and vanish, but people hope to retain the transient images and everything represented behind the images, hoping things to be remembered forever. The combination of daily furniture and stone sculpture in one work represents the implication of displaying “things still alive” and “memorials to passed” at the same time, in remembrance of daily implements, classic forms, and a past era.
Before modern materials, such as plastics, etc., were largely used, wooden-made round stools were massively produced for a long time due to their simple structure and easy attainability of wood. The wooden round stool was not only commonly seen in almost every family in the past Taiwan, but now also represents the last era that handmade crafts and daily life connected closely.
This is a product design that combines disparate materials, and it's also a symbolic object with the timeless memorial, a piece of installation art.
