浮生半日 / Dusk till dawn of lofty wrinkles
在遠離都市之後，自然環境使得辨識時間的熟悉元素大幅消退，我們必須重新摸索與建立認知，這樣的時空因而產生了某種空白，使得我們在如此去熟悉的場景裡，對於時間的感知會回到最純粹的狀態。為了迎接白晝必須歷經黑夜，我將「觀日」作為事件，使夜裡的人們從自然環境中，去拓印這片空白背後的斑斕場景，用地景度量夜裡的時間感知，展開一場以時間重新理解自然的非常觀日行動。
祝山從日治時期以來，一直是觀日出的最重要景點。其觀日的價值，並不是因為其位於台灣最東邊，因為其四面環山的內涵，巧妙地讓玉山山脈成為日出的前景，形成雲海壯觀的景致。除了日出，亦可觀萬歲山日落晚霞、星空銀河等等。置身此地不只觀日本身，而是觀其從四面環繞的群山中乍現。觀天景因季節變換，太陽於不同山頭起落而辨認方位；觀地貌因晝夜轉換，紋理逐漸浮現或褪去而感知時間。
昔日觀日樓的存在，賦予了祝山經驗整個夜晚的完整性，受地震摧毀後，我認為棲居的可能並非從此消失，不應再抱持著座落於美景最前排的野心，而是藉由界定人為與自然之間的輕重關係後，再重新介入場域。
Far away from the city, natural environment makes the element of recognizing time fade away. The situation of the place creates a certain kind of blank space, which makes our perception of time in such defamiliar scenes be shaped to the purest form. To start a new day, people have to go through the night. Take people “watching the sunrise” as an interface, people at night can rub the colorful scenes behind this blank space from the environment, measure the time with the landscape, and take action to re-understand nature through the scenarios in the night at different time.
Zhushan has been the most important scenic spot to watch the sunrise since the Japanese occupation. The value of it is not because its location on the easternmost side of Taiwan, but because of the connotation that it is surrounded by mountains, cleverly making the Yushan Mountain Range a foreground of the sunrise, forming a spectacular view of the sea of clouds. In addition, you can also watch the sunset, the starry sky and the milky way. Being here is not just watching the sun itself, but watching it emerge from the surrounding mountains on all sides, observing the sky due to the change of seasons, the sun rises and falls on different hills to identify the position. The landscape changes between day and night, and the texture gradually emerges or fades to perceive the time.
Destroyed by the earthquake, the building on the mountain top gave Zhushan the integrity of the whole night. The potential of dwelling will not disappear forever. Instead of being located in front of the beautiful scenery and taking advantage of it, we should define the relationship between man-made and nature, then re-enter the field.
