Revivification 蝶．誌

Recycle ‧ Regenerate ‧ Renew

The lifestyle magazines present ideas of the material world, most of them are usually considered as a commercial based, open sourced media, with thousands of duplicates printed every issue. They are superbly designed, printed and produced but last for just a few weeks only to be thrown away as garbage or recycled.

Wu has given back issue magazines a new life. Using butterfly as a symbol, represent their beauty and glorious, but a very short lifespan.

After a series of manufacture and furnishing, they lost their commercial nature, and have transformed into unique and exclusive art pieces.

By using the magazine pages as a material, and using the motif of the butterfly – perhaps her intention is to find a poetic language to set the viewer “ free” to a more transcendence and spiritual feeling than the original magazine might have.

Perhaps it might shift the viewers position from one of consumer to one who seeks loftier and more meaningful values.

再造 ‧ 再生 ‧ 再新

生活雜誌是一種消費文化的載體, 以緊貼報導 ”流行”和 ”品味”事物為主導。讀者相信通過定期閱讀, 能與 ”流行”生活同步, 緊跟消費資訊, 令消費者自覺更精明，從而社會價值觀被認同。

生活雜誌是大量複制的印刷成品，新一期出版，舊一期馬上就再沒有價值。

生活雜誌的存活期，每期由新到舊的變化歷程，啟發作者思考“新與舊”的關係，以及“消亡與重生”的概念。

 過期雜誌成為廢紙，無疑是一種資源消耗與浪費，珍惜它們以及偱環再用，是當今現代人都應參與的課題。

作者利用舊雜誌作為物料，作偱環再用的創作嘗試。希望通過研究和創作，能帶出富意義的訊息和作品。
 

生活雜誌是彩蝴蝶,生活在華麗與虛榮的花花世界。所以蝴蝶這物象為符號，作為設計創作上發揮的元素。

經過進行多次性的連續創作，將其商業本性徹底改變成私有的，每件都獨一無二的趣味性的作品。通過浪漫手法，以帶詩意的表達形式，給予過期雜誌新的生命，讓觀眾再一次以嶄新角度去欣賞被遣棄的舊雜誌。讓觀眾透過不同的視覺效果，感受作品背後蘊藏的意義。希望將循環再造的環保意念，透過視覺藝術表達。