The focal point of the thesis is Kuo-ming’s Lin’s creation from the year 2012 to 2015. My thesis,“ Urban Vision： Kuo-Ming Lin’s Creative Ideas of Complex Mediums,” intends to raise environmental awareness of our land, and to reveal concerns for traditional buildings, which are endangered by the urban renewal project.

The development of Taipei City traced its origin back in Danshui coastal areas and stretched all the way from the once-prosperous Monga to the newly-chic East District. In my childhood memories, traditional buildings were dispersed densely within Dadaocheng, which served as rice-drying ground and children’s playground. Traditional buildings, such as, rammed-earth house, siheyuan, compounds, and old houses that bear childhood memories and old-time collective memories of the society are gradually disappearing. The motive of the thesis, therefore, derives from my self-reflections on the environment which we share. I gathered fragments of hidden, subconscious images by the act of retrospection, and apply them to my compound medium creations to express my commemoration of the fading of the traditional buildings.

“Urban Vision” is consisted of three categories: unconscious and informal art, temporal significance of work, and simulacrum of the reality. The creation is a multiple composite of polynomial elements, bringing together sculpture, photography, architecture, and installation art. It addresses the issue of human perception, in terms of visual and tactile experience, along with varying physical substance of objects. The work takes shape through collage, sgraffito, rubbing, stacking, deconstructing, and restructuring of tiles and bricks from old, torn-down residence, distilling uniqueness from everyday experience. It goes beyond faithfual representation of concrete objects and reaches the abstract, spiritual dimension of things.

In simulacrum of the reality series, I attempt to represent vanishing old houses through the techniques of Photoshop CS montage, collage, and painting. Hundreds of photos are reconfigurated to highlight the conflicts between reality and illusion. The simulacrum is rendered indispensible within reality, as houses are made to disappear from urban illusion. It invites viewers’ sympathetic imagination to the traditional buildings.