瓶中信 Message in Bottle
“會飄向本島？亦或那映入眼簾之對岸？”
“Will it drift towards the homeland? Or towards the distant shore that upon the gaze?”
我用馬祖日報(舊媒體)做手抄紙，裡面藏了排他性極強又無天敵的外來種植物「銀合歡」的種子，銀合歡原產於南美洲，是屬戰地時期刻意引進栽培作為造林之用，而今對於馬祖自然生態造成極大的威脅。
以手抄紙乘載瓶中信的內容，邀請民眾在展場裡寫一封瓶中信給未知的⋯⋯。
瓶中信是一種傳遞訊息的形式，將訊息放入密封的容器投入海洋中，藉以將訊息傳至未知的對象。過去瓶中信的訊息接收者並沒有一個特定對象，訊息亦可能隨著洋流流動直到永遠。如今媒體資訊發達，我們能預示天氣、潮汐、海象⋯⋯這裡沒有他者，信的內容不再是無對象的浪漫或是一種無名的，沒有任何存在者為之負責的⋯⋯而撿到後的對象可以是將此計畫延伸（使事件發生）也可以是就此打住並且種下（銀合歡），而那未知的瓶中信也許再某地盛開成一片銀合歡純林。
島的封閉性使人有相對的內在時間去面對自身思想的無限。信件的傳遞時間，不是即刻的，不是像現在智慧型手機裡的社群軟體般，隨傳隨收的已讀狀態；信件的內容更非資訊性訊息，而是經過內化思考而產出的真實情感。
瓶中信為一種無力的循環，介於政治與詩意之間， 最終還是會回到瓶中信的未知。
I use the Matsu Daily (old media) as a handwritten paper, which contains the seeds of the exotic plant ” White Popinac”, which is native to South America and it is extremely exclusive and has no natural enemies. It was deliberately introduced and cultivated during the war period as a means of afforestation. At the present day, it makes a great threat to the ecology of Matsu.
The contents of the letter in the bottle are carried by handwritten paper, and the public is invited to write a letter in a bottle to the unknown in the exhibition .
A message in a bottle is a form of message delivery, which is put into an airtight container into the ocean to deliver the message to an unknown person. In the past, the message recipient of the message in a bottle did not have a specific object, and the message may flow with the ocean current forever. Now that the media information is developed, we can predict the weather, tides, walrus… There is no other here, and the content of the letter is no longer an objectless romance or a nameless, for which no existence is responsible… After picking it up The object can be to extend this plan (to make the event happen) or to stop and plant it (White Popinac), and the unknown letter in a bottle may bloom into a tree somewhere.
The shutter island allows people to have relative inner time to face the infinity of their own thoughts. The delivery time of the letter is not immediate, and it is not in the read status like the social software in the current smart phone, and the content of the letter is not informational, it is produced real emotion through internalized thinking.
Message in Bottle is a powerless cycle, between politics and poetry, that will eventually return to the unknown of the letter in a bottle.
(參與式作品，最後以閉幕宣讀活動將信朗誦，放進海漂瓶中。)
(Participatory works, at the end of the closing reading activity, the letter will be recited and put into the sea drift bottle.)
