蔡咅璟

After the typhoon Morakot, the russet sparrows disappeared from their habitats. Humans.  then took a series of conservation actions. At present, the mountain sparrows mainly inhabit the Zengwen reservoir, Alishan, and Guanziling. In the myth of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, Cou, there is a bird called Uhngu that helped humans obtain fire during the Great Flood. There exist, many theories about the nature of this bird, one of which indicates that it was a sparrow.

For the artist Tsai Pou-Ching, there is an ephemeral connection between these two things. He then involved the children of the Cou in a project to use the mud of the Zengwen reservoir to produce artificial nests. Half of these artificial nests became works of art, and the other half were made for the russet sparrows. Through the continuation of mythological narrative and imagination, Tsai Pou-Ching constructs a method of engaged conversation between human beings and nature.