Captions for New York
Artists’ book，Letter Size，50pages，2025
剛到紐約的我，規劃未來每週要去看的展覽、要去走一趟的景點，幾乎天天在紐約街頭行走超過兩萬步，所有的一切對我來說都是新鮮的，因此拿起手機瘋狂的拍攝。一天兩天、一週兩週這些影像的堆積也讓我看見「我觀看紐約的方式」，整理這些照片，可以感受自己的拍攝想法，這是自然而然的行為，也因此個人的創作風格展現在其中。
此件作品我將這些影像附上一句說明、一句我對每個影像的調侃、一句回應內容的話、一句展現幽默的標題。我以美式單格漫畫的形式製作這本藝術家的書，由如視覺日記收藏我在紐約的所見所聞，每張照片背後都有一段回憶，每句標語都傳達了我的觀察和感受，我試圖以輕鬆幽默的方式，呈現出自己在異地生活中的點滴和心情。
When I first arrived in New York, I planned exhibitions to see and places to visit, walking more than 20,000 steps a day and photographing everything as if the city might disappear if I didn’t.
As the images accumulated, they began to reveal not just New York, but the way I look at it—an instinctive, slightly obsessive, and personal way of seeing that quietly shaped my creative habits.
Each photograph in this project is paired with four lines: a description, a self-mocking comment, a response, and a humorous title. Presented as an artist’s book in the form of American-style single-panel comics, the work functions as a visual diary—part observation, part complaint, and part love letter to life in a foreign city.
