"This doesn't look like fireworks."

 

This series originated from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the images were created from news reports about missile bombings, test launches, or civilian rocket documentaries. The subjects include: Russian attack on Ukraine, Iraq war, SpaceX rocket, Israeli Iron Dome air defense system, and documentaries of missile development.

 

Regarding the title: Radiation series originated from the use of different spectral photography in order to take the same advantage of medical staining of cells, or the use of the colors of thermal image, to enhance the existing image for analysis. The sub-series title came from a witness exclaiming "This doesn't look like fireworks" when recording a missile flicking through the clouds overhead. Another reason comes from the artist's own experience of watching fireworks: similar explosions. The only difference is the motivation that drives the technology forward: to create peace, or to destroy.

 

Because of censorship restrictions on video platforms or open internet distribution, most of the information available to most people is from the last moments or results of the crisis, not the war itself. We are experiencing a virtual war on the screen, and the real war can only exist in the imagination, in the fireworks flying overhead. It's also true for the artist to have some degree of fantasy of the war, even though he is also located in a small country, in a similar situation, Taiwan.

​