Starting from 1996, I started using markers to scribble over texts or illustrations as a pre-experiment. This included scribbling over my agenda, receipts, packaging materials, containers, user guides, and instruction manuals. I also chose my old textbooks and scribbled over the text, the illustration, as well as the page numbers with black oil markers. The act of scribbling made me think back on or doubt the things which I had been taught.
I first chose and scribbled in an art history textbook which represented the Western point of view called Art Today, which was used when I took Western Contemporary Art class in the Fine Arts Department, National Taiwan Normal University. Later, I also scribbled in the other of my college textbook Modern Chinese History. These gestures were to express my doubt about the purpose and the authenticity of these publications, which I was asked to read by others. Obviously, the purposes of almost all so-called textbooks exist to impart some kind of knowledge or truth to instill into readers their ideology, to tame people into recognizing their ideas. Yet in fact, these goals do not have anything to do with pursuing the truth.

Scribbling the pages of textbooks and then portraying the images of what was scribbled over through illustrations and texts for display was an attempt made in vain to conceal something but in turn highlighted it. Even though the texts, illustrations, and page numbers were scribbled over, layouts of knowledge and perspectives were revealed more clearly. I think scribbling over the “ideological textbooks” as a way of rebellion and awakening. Although it cannot change reality, it does at least highlight the system and structure of knowledge, and that the power of knowledge is prevalent.

1996 年起，我開始用馬克筆進行一些塗掉圖文的前行實驗，包括塗掉工作計劃、收據、賬單、包裝材料、飲料容器、使用手冊和說明書。後來挑選自己受教育過程中的教科書，以黑色油性馬克筆塗黑上面印刷的文字、插圖和頁碼。這些塗抹的行為，讓我回溯或懷疑我已知的或被教育的內容。
我首先挑選、塗繪了一本西方觀點的藝術史教科書， 英文版的《Art Today》，是我就讀國立台灣師範大學美術系時必修的西洋現代藝術史。之後我又塗抹掉大學必修的歷史教科書，《中國現代史》。這些行為反思別人要我閱讀的教科書，質疑其存在的目的與內容的真實性。顯然，幾乎所有的「課本」與教育養成多多少少都是以知識或真理之名，達到灌輸意識型態、馴化人民與認同其知識內涵的目的。而這些目的其實與真理的追求無關。
塗抹讀本的頁面，最後以影像與標明其章節或圖說的文字並置輸出，這是一種欲蓋彌彰的作法。雖然原本文字、插圖、頁碼被蓋去，但知識的架構與觀點反而更赤裸的顯現出來。我覺得以塗抹「意識型態讀本」做為一種反叛與覺醒的行為，雖然無法改變現實，但起碼可以顯現知識的系統與架構，警覺知識權力的無所不在與根本動機。