archetype

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「天地萬物有自己依循的東西，讓物件自己會呈現這樣的形狀，像貝殼，像植物，這樣積年累月凝結而成的樣子」 幾個月前，在大英博物館的館藏看到熟悉的，一模一樣的，上下蓋螺旋藤編小葫蘆，點開來，是台灣原住民的物件，老物件當年流動到國外的博物館，就這樣與世隔絕，凝結起來，世界的另一邊，族群還在繼續，但是在某個地點和時間點，又會突然連動起來。 每一個季節的新品，沒有太多新奇的發明，因為手裡製作的東西，都是長期累積下來，內建在社會和身體裡的文化結構啊。

“All things under heaven have their own way of becoming, so that objects take shape as they do—like shells, like plants—formed through the long accumulation of years.” A few months ago, in the collections of the British Museum, I came across a familiar piece: a small spiral rattan gourd basket, marked as a Taiwanese Indigenous object. Each season’s work is less a matter of new forms than a return to what has long been carried in the body and the social fabric.