Foreword

“Obsolete daily objects, pressed glass panels from old Chinese screen doors, ceramic fragments, childhood favorite toys, old-fashioned jewellery castings collected from long-gone factories… They are traces of the bygone days. Cicy reconstructs these reclaimed scraps to sort out personal and collective memories, by reshaping, polishing, and putting together these fragments in silver with her own hands, so they emit a little bit of residual heat in the fleeting time and space.”

Ching Sze-Yin (Aug 2023, Vancouver)

陳舊的日常用品、港式舊屏風上的海棠花玻璃、陶瓷碎片、童年喜歡的玩具、倒閉工場積存的過時首飾鑄件、…保存着逝去歲月的痕跡。程詩賢將這些零碎的回收物件重新整合，以便梳理個人及集體記憶。用自己的雙手將這些碎片重新切割、打磨、拼合金屬構建成形。讓它們在轉瞬即逝的時空中再散發出一點點的餘溫。

程詩賢 (2023年8月 ，溫哥華)

An extension of ” bloom elsewhere” for Our Language Exhibition

Changes in time, location and habits make daily objects no longer routine or useful. The exercises, failures and unfinished works that have been practiced over the years in the creative journey are often regarded as waste materials and are always being overlooked.

時間、地點、習慣的變化，使得日常物品不再日常、不再有用。創作路途中練習功藝的習作、失敗和未完成的作品常被視為廢棄物料，總是被忽略。

Although they appear to be fragmented and useless, they preserve precious traces of their stories.

雖然它們看來支離破碎、再無用處，但它們卻保存了珍貴的故事痕跡。

Cicy reconstructs these reclaimed and often scattered fragments. Sorting out personal and collective memories she also expresses her own feelings through the making process. By taking a closer look at them with her heart, she re-shapes, polishes, and puts together these fragments in metal with her own hands. Her own feelings are recorded and reflected on the final objects.

程詩賢將這些零星細碎的物件回收再用、重新整合，她在梳理個人及集體記憶的同時也在表達自己的情感。她以心將它們重新細看、用雙手珍而重之地將他們切割、打磨、塑造、拼合金屬構建成形。透過製作過程以物寄情。

She combines the tone of four seasons she has experienced, and the plant forms she saw in Vancouver over the past two years. She elaborates her thoughts by borrowing the residual heat of unique stories on the reclaimed materials.

她借用再用物料本體上獨特故事的餘溫，加上過去兩年在溫哥華生活中體驗的四季調子、看到的植物形態，細塑她今天的所思所想。

Ching Sze-Yin (Sep 2023, Vancouver)

Materials used 物料：

Glass marbles, pressed glass, old-fashion silver jewellery castings, disposable plastic, thread, found objects, wooden bench pin, porcelain, UV glue, epoxy, stainless steel, copper, brass, silver.