Blemishes | 2002

Title: Blemishes
Year: 2002
Medium: installation | bonded leathers, paint, fishing line
Dimension: approx. 138 x 138 x 35½ in
Venue: Huashan 1914 Creative Park (former Huashan Arts District), Taipei, Taiwan

I used discarded bonded leather sheets from my father’s former factory to create a landscape of a female body that was aged and wrinkled. I hand stitched the thick leather sheets with a big needle to mirror the struggles that women usually experience under the traditional social norms.