棲所 Habitat

陳勇昌 Kaling Diway

臺灣 Taiwan

地點 | Location
月池平台對面草地
Grassland across the Moon Pond platform

材料 | Materials
竹子 Bamboo

第一次來到關渡碼頭，泥灘地上一漥漥的坑洞吸引了我的目光，那是彈塗魚歷經潮水起落的棲身之所。

我聯想起關渡自然公園的劃設，阻卻城市開發的步伐，為候鳥、招潮蟹與彈塗魚保留了豐美的棲地，也撫慰了來到這裏的人們騷亂的心靈。

這件作品造型發想自彈塗魚穴，隱喻了關渡自然公園保護河口濕地的角色，是生物與人類心靈的棲所。作品所在之處，曾是先人開闢的良田，並以此作紀念這裡曾有的阡阡陌陌。

When I first visited the Guandu Wharf, I was attracted by the numerous burrows on the intertidal mudflat. They were home to mudskippers, a safe shelter with constant ebb and flow.

This reminded me of how Guandu Nature Park acts as a buffer between urban development and nature reserves, to preserve a home for birds, fiddler crabs, and mudskippers, as well as a sanctuary for agitated minds of human beings.

Inspired by the mudskippers' holes, this work is metaphor of the role of Guandu Nature Park as a guardian of wetlands, a unique habitat for wildlife and humans. The site where the work is now located was the land cultivated by our ancestors. This work is thus a memento of the crisscrossed farmlands passed on. And also, an imprint of our own history.