(text by artist)

The process of fossilization, to me, is a process of casting when the original remains of the organism dissolves and leaves an empty space, which is gradually filled with other minerals. By this thinking, I put clay slip in every single space between pages of a book, and then fired it; a fossil of book was formed after burning away its paper and text. Disappearance of the physical body led to the presence of the book in an absent form. The fossil book is a still object, which accumulates numerous times of turning pages but simultaneously free from time. It is not just an evidence of existence but itself is an existence.

(translated)

就我而言，石化與模製的過程相似。殘餘的有機物質逐漸分解，剩下的空隙由其他礦物質重新注滿。以此想法為由，我將薄薄的泥漿掃在頁面之間；送進窯後，紙張與文字均被燒去，書本的化石就此成型。書本消失，不復存在的實物則由空缺的形態取代。作為靜物，書本化石積聚了多次翻動書頁的次數，同時也脫離於時間之外。這本陶書不止是他者存在的證明，它自身也充份地存在著。

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