Process photograph (oblique view): University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, 1996
過程影像（側拍）：1996 年加州大學爾灣分校，爾灣，加州，美國
Process photograph (oblique view): University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, 1996
過程影像（側拍）：1996 年加州大學爾灣分校，爾灣，加州，美國
Process photograph (oblique view): University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, 1996
過程影像（側拍）：1996 年加州大學爾灣分校，爾灣，加州，美國
Process photograph (oblique view): University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, 1996
過程影像（側拍）：1996 年加州大學爾灣分校，爾灣，加州，美國
Process photograph (oblique view): University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, 1996
過程影像（側拍）：1996 年加州大學爾灣分校，爾灣，加州，美國
Process photograph (oblique view): University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, 1996
過程影像（側拍）：1996 年加州大學爾灣分校，爾灣，加州，美國
Process photograph (oblique view): University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, 1996
過程影像（側拍）：1996 年加州大學爾灣分校，爾灣，加州，美國
Process photograph (oblique view): Huashan 1914 Creative Park (formerly Huashan Arts District), Taipei, Taiwan, 2000
過程影像（側拍）：2000 年華山 1914 文化創意產業園區（華山藝文特區），臺北，臺灣
Process photograph (oblique view): Huashan 1914 Creative Park (formerly Huashan Arts District), Taipei, Taiwan, 2000
過程影像（側拍）：2000 年華山 1914 文化創意產業園區（華山藝文特區），臺北，臺灣
Process photograph (oblique view): Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China, 2003
過程影像（側拍）：2003 年東京畫廊，北京，中國
Process photograph (oblique view): National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2008
過程影像（側拍）：2008 年國立臺灣美術館，臺中，臺灣
Process photograph (oblique view): National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2008
過程影像（側拍）：2008 年國立臺灣美術館，臺中，臺灣
Process photograph (oblique view): Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2015
過程影像（側拍）：2015 年高雄市立美術館，高雄，臺灣
Process photograph (oblique view): Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2015
過程影像（側拍）：2015 年高雄市立美術館，高雄，臺灣
Process photograph (oblique view): Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2015
過程影像（側拍）：2015 年高雄市立美術館，高雄，臺灣
Process photograph (oblique view): Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2015
過程影像（側拍）：2015 年高雄市立美術館，高雄，臺灣
Process photograph (oblique view): Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2015
過程影像（側拍）：2015 年高雄市立美術館，高雄，臺灣
Process photograph (oblique view): Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2015
過程影像（側拍）：2015 年高雄市立美術館，高雄，臺灣
Process photograph (installation view): University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, 1996
過程影像（全景）：1996 年加州大學爾灣分校，爾灣，加州，美國
Process photograph (installation view): University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, 1996
過程影像（全景）：1996 年加州大學爾灣分校，爾灣，加州，美國
Process photograph (installation view): Huashan 1914 Creative Park (formerly Huashan Arts District), Taipei, Taiwan, 2000
過程影像（全景）：2000 年華山 1914 文化創意產業園區（華山藝文特區），臺北，臺灣
Process photograph (installation view): Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China, 2003
過程影像（全景）：2003 年東京畫廊，北京，中國
Process photograph (installation view): National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2008
過程影像（全景）：2008 年國立臺灣美術館，臺中，臺灣
Process photograph (installation view): Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2015
過程影像（全景）：2015 年高雄市立美術館，高雄，臺灣
Pencil Wall (overall view)
鉛筆牆（作品全景）
Original object: pencil stubs
原始物件：鉛筆尾巴
Original object: pencil shavings
原始物件：鉛筆屑
Original object: duct tape
原始物件：膠帶
Original object: audio and video tapes
原始物件：錄音帶、錄影帶
Original object: pencil sharpeners
原始物件：削鉛筆機
Installation view, “LINES—Shi Jin-Hua’s Contemporary Religious Art," Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2017
展場實錄：2017「線 — 石晉華當代宗教藝術展」，高雄市立美術館，臺灣
Installation view, “LINES—Shi Jin-Hua’s Contemporary Religious Art," Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2017
展場實錄：2017「線 — 石晉華當代宗教藝術展」，高雄市立美術館，臺灣
Installation view, “LINES—Shi Jin-Hua’s Contemporary Religious Art," Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2017
展場實錄：2017「線 — 石晉華當代宗教藝術展」，高雄市立美術館，臺灣
Installation view, “Sports-themed Taiwanese exhibition Taiwan Cultural Center”, Tokyo, Japan; Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan, 2019
展場實錄：2019「淬•煉 — 百錬鋼を成す 臺灣當代藝術展」，東京臺灣文化中心藝廊，東京，日本；橫濱市民藝廊，橫濱，日本
Installation view, “The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists 1961–1970," National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2014
展場實錄：2014「臺灣藝術家 — 刺客列傳 1961–1970」，國立臺灣美術館，臺中，臺灣
Installation view, “The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists 1961–1970," National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2014
展場實錄：2014「臺灣藝術家 — 刺客列傳 1961–1970」，國立臺灣美術館，臺中，臺灣
Installation view, “Pen Walking," Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008
展場實錄：2008「走筆」，臺北市立美術館，臺北，臺灣
Shi Jin-Hua
, pencil sharpeners, audio and video tapes, and extension cord), photographs, single-channel video (color, sound), and document
Pencil shavings, stubs, and duct tape: 180 parts total (60 of each); sizes variable each approx. 6 5/8 × 6 13/16 × 2 in. (16.8 × 17.3 × 5 cm)
Process photographs: 30 parts; each 18 1/2 × 26 3/16 in. (47 × 66.5 cm)
Document: 19 × 13 in. (48.3 × 32.9 cm)
Video: 18:01 min.
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Confronted by the helplessness and existential void of a cyclical life, Pencil Walker attempts to transcend the Pen Walking series, evolving into a personal ritual of repentance. The practitioner erects a white wooden wall and positions a video camera facing it. A pencil sharpener is affixed to his left upper arm with tape, a recording device to his right, and a microphone connected to the recorder is sealed over his mouth. He activates the video and audio recorders, sharpens a pencil with the sharpener on his arm, and then walks back and forth before the white wall, continuously drawing lines with the pencil. Simultaneously, the practitioner begins by chanting a verse of repentance from the Avataṃsaka Sūtra: "All the evil karma ever created by me / Is caused by beginningless greed, hatred, and delusion / Manifested through my body, speech, and mind / I now repent all of them." As he "pen-walks," he continuously recites mantras, the Heart Sūtra, or the names of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. This cycle of sharpening, drawing lines, and chanting is repeated continuously; each session lasts approximately two hours and fifteen minutes, performed sixty times over twenty years.
The Pen Walking series and Pencil Walker are imbued with several layers of metaphor: each pencil represents a cycle of reincarnation. The wall and paper—originally pristine and white, now darkened and soiled—symbolize the accumulated negative karma across countless past lives. Pen Walking silently surveys the totality of a lifetime's endeavors, prompting one to sigh: "No matter what, it is but thus." Pencil Walker, however, seeks to meditate before the accumulated negative karma of countless lives, posing the question: "If one pencil can represent a single human life, then what kind of life lines do I repeatedly trace in the long cycle of birth and death? Is it not the ceaseless progression of birth, aging, illness, and death? Do these hardships hold any meaning? Must I continue in this manner?"
Confronting such a life, you have not truly seen through it. You both crave and despise it; you harbor a certain self-loathing. And so, you fall silent... and your silence, is the pencil.
(originally published in the artist's monograph, 2013)
「走筆」系列與《走鉛筆的人》蘊含著一些隱喻：一枝枝的筆，代表一生生的輪迴。那面本來清靜潔白，如今黝黑污濁的紙與牆，則象徵過去生生世世累積的惡業。「走筆」沈默地全覽一生的作業，使人喟嘆：「不論再怎麼樣，也不過如此」，而《走鉛筆的人》則試圖在累生造作的惡業前冥想：「如果一枝筆，可以是一個人的一生。那麼在漫長的生死輪迴中，我重複走出的是什麼樣的人生線條？不就是不斷的生、老、病、死嗎？這些辛苦有意義嗎？還要這樣繼續下去嗎？」
面對這樣的人生，其實你並未看透。你既渴念也厭棄，你有些痛恨自己。於是，你沈默⋯，而你的沈默，就是筆。
（原載於2013年作品集）
◆《走鉛筆的人》1996–2015｜鉛筆、木板、原始物件（夾鏈袋、膠帶、削鉛筆機、錄影帶、錄音磁帶、延長線）、30件過程影像、單頻道錄像（彩色、有聲）、文件｜鉛筆牆：244 × 976 × 1.4 cm；鉛筆屑、鉛筆尾巴、黑膠帶：共 180 包（各 60 包），尺寸約 16.8 × 17.3 × 1.5–5 cm；過程影像：共 30 件，每件 47 × 66.5 cm；文件：48.3 × 32.9 cm；錄像：18分01秒
展覽
2019 Sports-themed Taiwanese exhibition Taiwan Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan; Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan2019 Pencil Walker, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 LINES—Shi Jin-Hua’s Contemporary Religious Art, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2014 The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists 1961–1970, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2009 Being in the World: An Exhibition of the Self and Its Situations, Providence University Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
2008 Pencil Walker, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2008 Pen Walking, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 The 10th Li Chun-Shan Foundation Visual Arts Award Works Exhibition, National Cheng Kung University Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2007–2008 Taiwan: From within the Mist, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, South Dakota, USA; Centre A, Vancouver, Canada; Christel Dehaan Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Illeges Gallery, Columbus State University, Georgia, USA; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2003 Beads and Strokes, Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China
2002 Art of Kaohsiung 2001: Art in Kaohsiung after the Lifting of Martial Law, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2002 CO2 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta Overture: Ke Tsi-Hai Solo Exhibition, presented by G8 Public Relations and Consultation of Art Corp., Huashan 1914 Creative Park (formerly Huashan Arts District), Taipei, Taiwan
2000 Pencil Walker—The Performance and Documentation of Shi Jin-Hua, Huashan 1914 Creative Park (formerly Huashan Arts District), Taipei, Taiwan2001 Translation of Spirit, Cheng-Shiu Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1996 Watch Steps, The Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
2019「走鉛筆的人」，安卓藝術，臺北，臺灣
2017「線 — 石晉華當代宗教藝術展」，陳宏星策展，高雄市立美術館，高雄，臺灣
2017 「悚憶：解．紛 — 解嚴與臺灣當代藝術展」，美國康乃爾大學強生美術館，紐約，美國
2015「走鉛筆的人」，高雄市立美術館，高雄，臺灣
2014「臺灣藝術家 — 刺客列傳 1961–1970」，國立臺灣美術館，臺中，臺灣
2009「何以自處：一個自我及其處境的展覽」，靜宜大學藝術中心，臺中，臺灣
2008 「走鉛筆的人」，國立臺灣美術館，臺中，臺灣
2008 「走筆」，臺北市立美術館，臺北，臺灣
2008 「第十屆李仲生基金會視覺藝術獎」，成功大學藝術中心，臺南，臺灣
2007–2008「迷離島：台灣當代藝術視象」巡迴展，華盛頓藝術及科學館，南達科他州，美國；當代亞洲藝術國際中心，溫哥華，加拿大；印地拿波里大學美術館，印地安納州，美國；哥倫布州立大學依爾吉藝廊，喬治亞州，美國；國立台灣美術館，臺中，臺灣2003 「念珠．筆觸」，東京畫廊，北京，中國
2002 「C02 — 台灣前衛文件展」，華山1914文化創意產業園區（華山藝文特區），臺北，臺灣
2002 「後解嚴時代的高雄藝術」，高雄市立美術館，高雄，臺灣
2001 「心靈轉譯」，正修技術學院藝術中心，高雄，臺灣
2000 「走鉛筆的人 — 石晉華行為文件展」，華山1914文化創意產業園區（華山藝文特區），臺北，臺灣1996 「Watch Steps」，加州大學爾灣分校美術館，加州，美國
出版品
2018 LINES—Shi Jin-Hua’s Contemporary Religious Art. Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2014 The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists, 1961–1970. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.
2013 Shi Jin-Hua. Mind Set Art Center, Taiwan.
2008 Pen Walking: Shi Jin-Hua. Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.
2018《線 — 石晉華當代宗教藝術展》，高雄市立美術館，臺灣
2014《台灣美術家 — 刺客列傳五年級生1961–1970》， 國立臺灣美術館，臺灣
2013《石晉華》，安卓藝術股份有限公司，臺灣
2008《走筆 石晉華》， 臺北市立美術館，臺灣
2007《迷離島 — 台灣當代藝術視象》， 國立臺灣美術館，臺灣
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A 100km Walk, 2012-2017
