Hsin Hwang
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Residency Note｜Tainan,Taiwan
Tainan is my second hometown, a place I returned to often during childhood. The streets filled with incense, gongs, and temple colors shaped my earliest memories of ritual and belief.
During this residency, I revisited these neighborhoods—walking through small local temples and larger ceremonial sites across the city. The overlapping sounds of drums, gongs, and firecrackers—the familiar “ding-ding-dong-dong”—brought back the rhythm of my childhood.
Madou Dai Tian Temple left a strong impression, especially its wooden gateways marked “Heaven Entrance” and “Heaven Exit.” This visual language returned in my wooden house installation, which echoes the idea of a threshold between the human world and the divine.
Through drawings and wooden constructions, I began collecting fragments of memory—temple motifs, childhood impressions, and Tainan’s spiritual atmosphere—transforming them into a small house that holds the feeling of returning home.