年份：2013

媒材：錄像
尺寸：1920×1080

長度：8'23"

小時候一直覺得對著生日蛋糕許願是多麼珍貴的事，可以把想要的禮物，刻在願望的翅膀上，等待成真。長大後學到wish這個字，I wish I could讓人驚訝於願望其實部分來自於“無法完成”，仿佛我們對著蛋糕許下的願望，某些成分是為了彌補無法挽回的遺憾。
本次展出的「許願」計劃，預計拍攝10組不同生長背景的人物故事，因為某階段的人生際遇，讓生命或有遺憾卻漸漸成為過去，也記錄他們在生日時會許下的願望，這小小的，個人的幸福許願時刻，無涉於主流價值判斷，每一個心靈都需要為自己的快樂高歌，為自己的幸福定義。
本次展出已記錄剪輯完成的3組生命故事，雖然3位故事主角背景大異其趣，但面對許願的特權，很一致的，大家都把神奇的願望翅膀，刻上祝福，給了他們心中最愛的家人。

 

At a younger age, I thought making wishes to a birthday cake was such a precious moment. I would include all the gifts I wanted in the wishes and hope they will come true. Later in my life I came across the grammatical usage of the English word “wish” and realized when one says “I wish I could”, it is implied that the wish is something that cannot materialize in reality. It is as if the wishes over a birthday cake are simply made to compensate the regrets for things we can never have.

In the Wish Project, I plan to shoot 10 people with different backgrounds. They all have some regrets due to unexpected twists and turns in life, and they all have wishes they make on birthdays. The moments they make those wishes are irrelevant to the mainstream values, as everyone, every soul needs to sing for their happiness, happiness by their own definitions.

Three sets of edited footage are on display at this exhibition. While the three participants have very different personal stories, they all use birthday wishes as opportunities to send blessings to their beloved family.