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妳蒙著眼睛走上這條路，
為的是不讓自己看見眼前的幽暗，
也為了哄騙自己路面平坦又寬廣。
妳每跨出一步，就安慰自己離目標更近一點了，
誰曉得？
也許這一步不過是讓妳陷入泥沼更深、也許更接近懸崖邊緣。
妳以為妳的心可以為妳指出方向，
妳的心卻比妳想像的還要狂亂和脆弱。
妳的腳步急躁而充滿疑惑，妳握緊的拳頭憤怒而孤獨。
但妳不能回頭，妳甚至不知道回頭指的是哪個方向？
妳只能大聲吶喊：走吧！走吧！走吧！
走吧，再跨一步。

最近有個介紹拼貼藝術作者的部落格notpaper來採訪我，
如果可以的話，我真想把上面的心聲也一起送給他。
以下是他的評論與採訪內容：
Temple33's work has gorgeous colours muted with black and white, and the with paint she adds movement to her pieces. She has such an interesting array of work, but I've included only her paper collages here. What I think is really interesting are her unfolded packaging journals and her fabric collages, which I may cover a little later (check them out on her flickr).

Name (Real or Screename): temple33
URL (Blog, Website): www.flickr.com/photos/temple_33/
Location (Where are you from?): Taipei, Taiwan

Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: Found+sort+cut+glue+print+tear+paste+stitch+draw=my work

Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: I work with whatever I found or got for free. Mostly the flyers/posters/ brochures/free magazines/yellow pages/maps... Also I work with the aged notebooks/date books/calendars I've collected since I was a school girl.

Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: I've created collage “intensely” for only 1.5 years. I worked as a travel /lifestyle journalist for years. Since I love papers very much, I have stocked lots of magazines and prints. One day, I found I needed more space to live and had to clean out some of the paper collection, so I started creating collage.

Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: Well, I take the sole artist as my life long career but now I need to work as a part time translator/journalist to live.

Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: No.

Q: Explain your favourite techniques.
A: Techniques? I don't know... Maybe intuition?

Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A: Hmmmm... I'm not sure. So far I just try to experience as many different compositions as I can. They are more like in progress but not finished works.

Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: I'm inspired by Asian tribes, C.G.Jung, mysticism, Yoshitomo Nara, Annette Messager, lots of novel writers.

Thanks temple33!