Walking to Taipei
2010-2021
Artists
Description
About two thousand strips of white and brown paper with printed directions cover a 25-foot-long, 20-inch-tall handscroll on translucent white Dura-lar with clear acrylic roller ends. Read from right to left, they are arranged in patterns that vary from one section to the next. Floral end papers decorate the ends of the scroll, which is stored in a custom-made box.
Dimensions
50.8 × 762 cm (20 × 300 in.)
Provenance
Yu-Wen Wu, Boston (2010-21), sold; through [Praise Shadows Gallery, Brookline, MA, (2021 - 2022), sold; to Harvard Art Museums.
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