2012 (Happy Or Black Book) For Farmer

2012 solo exhibition — (Happy Or Black Book) For Farmer, NHCUE ART SPACE. © Jam Wu. Photo courtesy of the artist.
375 Percent Rent Limitation. Sale of Public Land. Land-to-the-Tiller. Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction. Banana Empire. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Old-age Farmers' Welfare Allowance. Land Expropriation Act. Agricultural Land Set-aside Policy. Village Renewal Project. Cross-Century Agricultural Development Program. WTO. Land Justice.

The two Chinese characters “農用” stand for “Farm-Use”, which are printed on most farm tools in Taiwan. The Chinese characters “黑皮” phonetically sound like “happy” in English, but literally, they bear the meaning of “black exterior”; so the wordplay is used here to question is it HAPPY or BLACK?
The “Happy or Black Book” is an alternative version of farmer's almanac. From the already delineated seasons, we could look into how out of touch are we with the ways we treat the environment and its creatures.