2024 Public Servant
During Taiwan’s election season, I traveled by scooter from Taipei to Kaohsiung, documenting the abundance of campaign billboards that filled the streets. Each candidate wore a broad, friendly smile—but I found myself questioning the sincerity of these smiles. Are they genuine ? Is this their true face ? These doubts became the source of my creative inspiration. In this series, I use compressed perspective photography to insert myself into the space of the candidates’ billboards. By mimicking their expressions and gestures, I replace their faces with my own smile. This visual strategy prevents viewers from seeing the actual appearance of the candidates and instead invites them to question the intentions behind these campaign images. Through this substitution, I hope to provoke deeper thought about the potential dissonance between political imagery and reality. 《 國家公僕 》 在台灣選舉期間，我騎機車穿梭於台北到高雄的街頭，統計各地的選舉看板。路上密密麻麻的選舉廣告看板，每個候選人都笑容可掬。然而在我心中卻對這些笑容充滿疑惑與好奇，他們是否真心？這是他們平日的面貌嗎？這些問題開啟了我創作的靈感。 我以攝影透視壓縮空間的方式，在拍攝的過程中將自己置入於候選人的宣傳看板裡。透過此舉，我試圖揣摩候選人的表情與姿勢，並讓觀看照片的觀眾看不到每位候選人個別的「模樣」，而是由我的「微笑表情」所取代。這樣的照片呈現希望觀眾在觀看到環境中的選舉宣傳訊息時，能更有意識地感受這些影像訊息的動機，並思考訊息表面與背後可能的差距與誤解。