我們的曾經系列: 你還記得那時躺在母親的懷抱磨蹭時的寧馨，或是大家一同扮鬼臉的家族合照；你還記得曾經趕著寫完功課，守在電視機前聚精會神的等著自己最喜歡的卡通人物從那黑盒子裡跑出來？在創作「曾經」這一系列時，我問過身邊的各個年齡層，在20-35歲這個年齡層的年輕人們大部分都會想很久，後來一位21歲的年輕人忽然說了一句：「我們還沒有到會回憶童年的那個年紀。」，不知道為什麼會讓我感動莫名；那些最平凡、最易消失的、最美好的、最感傷甚或最虛弱的時刻，普魯斯特曾在一段著名的文字裡，描寫了這個專屬於他的時刻，但他寫作的方式，又使得所有的人都可以在自己的生命中找到這樣的時刻，而我們可以把這個時刻命名為「日常的片刻」，透過回憶的光輝，來捕捉生活曾經流動的過程，尋找屬於我們自己已經淡忘的昨日時光。在這個作為闡述個人記憶的題裁上，回應過往伴隨著成長的虛擬角色，同時勾起觀者的共同經歷。因此這個「曾經」，不單單是我的曾經，也作為你我記憶中的曾經。

Past of ours:

Do you remember the moment that lay in mother’s embrace, or everyone grimaced together while taking family photos. Or do you ever remember completing the assignment quickly, just to watch your own favorite cartoon avatars shown out from the black box? While creating this series, I asked people around all ages, people who are between 20 to 35 mostly think for a long time. “We are not yet at that age where we can recall our childhood.” Said by a 21-year-old boy. This moved me inexplicably for no reason, the moments which are most mundane, disappearable, beautiful, sentimental, or even the weakest moments. Marcel Proust once famously wrote the moment exclusive to him in a passage, but his writing style makes everyone could found out moment like this in their own life, and we name it as “moments of daily life”. Through the brilliance of memories, we can capture the process of life once flowing, and find our own forgotten yesterday time. By explaining the topic of personal memory, responding to the avatar which grows up with us, at the same time, it evokes the common experience of the viewer. The “once” belongs to you and me.