Water Ciphers: a hidden message in the water -- work for "Art in Chungli" Project 水的密碼 ("藝遊中壢上河圖"作品)

水的密碼 Water Ciphers

 Statement :

Water is the source of life. Hidden in water are messages for life, which then being encoded into different lifeforms and various organisms. The Old Street River, located at the downtown area of Chungli, Taoyuan, has been running all the way from the upstream town Longtan, and carried many possibilities of new life. Guarding the Old Street River is to guard the creatures coming from the water and the environment where are home to these creatures as well as the human kind.

The work consists of three parts: the flying feathers on grassland, the mini woods, and the little fish in shoals being installed along the railings of the riverbank. This work is made by artist Julie Chou with the collaboration of Water Environment Patrolling Team on the Old Street River in Chungli and Hsing Guo Elementary School kids.

Water plays such an important role in all lives and it seems that all lifeforms contain the hidden message from water. I use forms of wings, plants and fish to represent the transformative manifestation of this hidden message, trying to get people's attention to care for the river.

水是生命之源。水中藏著生命的密碼，以不同的生命形式呈顯在各種生物形體中。

老街溪一路蜿蜒，也孕育了許多生命的可能。守護老街溪，正是守護著這些生命，以及和這些生命相關的環境、我們生存其中的家園。

此作包含三組內容：草原上的「飛羽」、小樹苗區，和河畔欄杆上的悠遊小魚群，由藝術家和水環境巡守隊、興國國小共同製作。