Why I Return

Why I Return traces a fourteen-year departure from the art world — and the path back. Three collapses in 2011 (Fukushima, the Greek crisis, a betrayal in Taiwan) led to silence. Thirteen years of organic oil import and forty years of martial arts revealed something essential: the repeated gesture doesn’t repeat mindlessly. It refines, becomes sensitivity. But without practice, this muscle atrophies.

Now, returning to Taiwan for a three-month residency at Kaohsiung’s port, the question emerges: what does the repeated gesture reveal about the sound we no longer hear? Not a documentary. Not sociological analysis. Attentive listening transformed into sonic creation. Read on Substack →