Weaving the Imagery Textiles: Narrating the Shifting Memory of Home

With descriptions of memory, personal intuition and temporal aspect in art
creation, I use of video recording to seize moments of ordinary life through
presenting a certain angle that individuals can adapt to. While travelling in
foreign countries, S.F. Huang rebuilds her knowledge of Taiwan’s history.
She regards herself as a foreign observer enduringly involving herself in the
environment; this involvement is incomplete because there is a cultural gap that
she can not always cross over. On the route, she experiences the cultural barriers
between her and her travelling circumstances, childhood memories were aroused.
A textile-based narrative will be constructed through the shifting traces in the
artist’s memories and her visual reading of the environment whilst travelling.
This paper aims for the art practice and the development of transforming
interpreted ideas into the form of art. It will focus on the narrative types in
textile vocabulary, which would demonstrate the personal way that she has been
experiencing. The artist’s view is based on her original cultural background, and
through the metaphorical ‘traces’ of ‘a traveller’s’ migration, reaches across to the
cross-cultural signification in the language of textiles.
The recordings of textile vocabulary convey the texture of memories.
Furthermore, the shifting boundaries will be generated from the discontinuity of
personal memories and the shifting traces of a traveller’s movement which crosses
from one field to the other; the development of the idea of the transformation
from material (textiles) into immaterial (video images) will thus be presented.

I gained my MA in the Department of Textile, Fashion & Surface Design in
BIAD at University of Central England in Birmingham in 1996. My works
recalled the relationship between people, and concerning with environments.
Afterward, I have been a lecturer at Shu-te University in Taiwan since 1998
to date. At the moment, I am a PhD Candidate at Chelsea College of Art and
Design at University of The Arts London, where I have been a member of
TrAIN (Transitional Art, Identity and Nation). In my PhD study, I transfer
textiles expression into immaterial manifestations (moving image), involving
a journey of self-discovery that my thoughts and memories can be unfolded.
In addition to PhD study, my project ‘The Traversing of Lines’ was selected by
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan for a solo exhibition relating to the
Forum of Creativity in 2003. The installation experiments explore the relationship
among people, objects and spaces; working with yarn, thread and fabric conveys
my personal aesthetic approach. Afterward, my work Traversing in the Void
was exhibited for Contemporary Textile Art OBG International Biennial 2004 at
Ormeau Bath Gallery in Belfast. My work Recollecting Interactive Moments was
invited to a tour exhibition from 2006 to 2008 in The 9th International Shoebox
Sculpture Exhibition that was organized by The University of Hawaii Art Gallery.