Five Steps Sob Mountain Song

• Photographer
  Meng-Han Hsu
• Photo Date
  2023

Looking back at the complex history of the past, the land of Taiwan has long struggled with cultural development and has witnessed the frequent change of rulers time and again. Today, the relationship between Taiwan and Japan is no longer between the colonized and the colonizer, but a partnership of mutual friendship, trust and cooperation, and sharing of democratic values. I chose to take the historical origin of the highest peak in Hsinchu City, Wubuku Mountain, as the starting point to feel and capture through my lens the hidden smoke, blood and tears in the scenery.

Hsu Meng-Han is a multidisciplinary artist whose work revolves around visions of life, passion, and mortality. Having studied art from an early age, Hsu has cultivated a practice of using metaphor to create visual tension, expressed through an artistic vocabulary that is at once intimately personal and open. In Ours, a series of paintings on Taiwan, she focuses on fine details to elucidate the splendour of subtle forms, honing in on a certain way of seeing that she has refined over in recent years as her portfolio has expanded to include photography, installation, and other forms of art.