陶之始 Clay Origin
陶土最初靠近生命形貌的起點 The first clay gestures toward living form.
世界本來就是活的。 The world has always been alive.
那些尚未成形的生命，
在看見與想像之間，
逐漸顯現。
Unformed lives gradually emerge
between seeing and imagination.
00 / 名字的由來 The Meaning of Yuzen Universe
在視與不視之間，生成自己的宇宙。 Generating my own universe between seeing and not seeing.
Yuzen，源自創作者「又禎」的名字，也在聲音與意象中，隱約呼應「幽禪」與「悠然」——幽遠、靜謐而自由。
Universe，不只是宇宙，更是一個讓生命在觀看、想像與雙手之間，持續生成、逐漸顯現的世界。
Yuzen Universe，是又禎的宇宙，也是生命得以一次又一次重新開始的地方。
01 / 關於又禎 About Yuzen
從世界的痕跡，走向又禎宇宙 From the World’s Traces Into Yuzen Universe
我的創作並非單純再現眼前事物，而是來自於我與世界之間流動的感知關係。石紋、木紋、裂縫、風景與時間留下的痕跡，逐漸成為我走進又禎宇宙的起點。 My work does not simply reproduce what stands before me. It grows from a shifting relationship of perception between the world and myself. Stone patterns, wood grain, cracks, landscapes, and traces left by time gradually became the path through which I entered Yuzen Universe.
在觀看、觸摸與想像交會之後，這些尚未成形的生命線索，透過陶土、線條與不同媒材慢慢顯現。每一件作品，都像一個仍在形成的小宇宙。 After seeing, touch, and imagination meet, these still-unformed traces of life slowly emerge through clay, line, and other materials. Each work becomes a small universe still in formation.
創作起點 Beginning
《樹精之傲》 Pride of the Tree Spirit
第一個從陶土中甦醒的樹精昂首而立，像自然靈魂初次現身，也開啟了 Yuzen Universe 的生命語彙。
Tree Spirit's Pride The first spirit awakening from clay stands with its head lifted, marking the beginning of Yuzen Universe and its living language of eyes, faces, nature, and soul.
創作者 Artist
鄭又禎 Yuzen Cheng
我的創作發生在「視與不視之間」。
以世界留下的痕跡作為起點，
在看見與想像之間，
讓尚未存在的生命逐漸生成。
My work happens between seeing and not-yet-seeing. Beginning with traces left by the world, I let lives not yet existing gradually emerge between perception and imagination.
鄭又禎，畢業於國立清華大學藝術與設計學系研究所。從事室內設計三十餘年，持續投入陶藝、繪畫、木雕與多媒材創作。 Yuzen Cheng graduated from the Graduate Institute of Art and Design at National Tsing Hua University. With more than thirty years in interior design, she continues to work across ceramics, drawing, wood sculpture, and mixed media.
近年以「Yuzen Universe」為創作主軸，透過裂縫、殘片、石紋與人格生成，探索萬物有靈與生命顯影的可能。 In recent years, Yuzen Universe has become her central creative world, exploring cracks, fragments, stone textures, and generated personhood as ways for animism and hidden life to appear.
02 / 創作理念 Creative Concept
生命在觀看、想像與雙手之間逐漸顯現 Life Emerges Through Seeing, Imagination, and the Hands
世界本來就是活的。
我所說的「活」，不是指完整的生命早已藏在石頭、樹木或裂縫之中，等待被發現；而是世界始終蘊含著尚未被看見的生命生成可能。
我在石紋、木紋、海岸、舊牆與時間留下的痕跡中，看見那些尚未成形的線索。當紋理、裂縫與形體進入我的觀看，與想像相遇，再經由雙手透過線條、陶土、木材、油彩與粉彩逐漸形象化，生命才慢慢顯現。
因此，我不是單純記錄已經存在的生命，也不是憑空創造生命；我是生命生成過程的參與者。
The world has always been alive.
By “alive,” I do not mean that complete beings are already hidden within stones, trees, or cracks, waiting to be discovered. Rather, the world continually holds possibilities for life that have not yet been seen or given form.
In the patterns of stone and wood, along coastlines, on old walls, and among the traces left by time, I begin to see hints of forms not yet fully born. When these textures, cracks, and shapes enter my seeing, meet my imagination, and gradually take form through my hands—in line, clay, wood, oil, pastel, and other materials—life begins to emerge.
I am therefore neither simply recording lives that already exist nor creating them out of nothing. I participate in the process through which life takes form.
四個生成觀 Four Views of Becoming
又禎宇宙的哲學羅盤 A Philosophical Compass for Yuzen Universe
又禎宇宙不是一套理論，而是一種觀看、創作與生命逐漸顯現的方式。 Yuzen Universe is not a theory, but a way of seeing, making, and allowing life to gradually emerge.
世界本來就是活的｜世界觀
世界並不是藏著完整生命等待被發現，而是始終提供生命生成的可能。
The World Has Always Been Alive | Worldview
The world does not hide complete lives waiting to be found; it continually offers possibilities for life to emerge.
創作即生命｜生命觀
創作不是為了證明存在；當我創作時，我正在存在。
Creation Is Life | View of Life
Creation is not about proving existence. When I create, I am present.
手生形現｜創作者與生成
雙手先於命名行動，形體在觸覺、媒材與想像之間逐漸顯現。
Form Emerges Through the Hands | The Maker and Becoming
The hands move before naming; form gradually appears through touch, material, and imagination.
轉視生相｜觀者與觀看
作品不是在完成時停止；當觀者轉換觀看，新的生命相貌也再次生成。
As Seeing Turns, Forms Arise | The Viewer and Seeing
A work does not stop when it is finished; as the viewer's seeing shifts, new forms of life arise again.
03 / 作品系列 Work Series
從世界留下的痕跡、裂縫與時間，到陶土、人格與線條，生命在不同的觀看方式與媒材之間逐漸生成。這些系列不是彼此分離的分類，而是同一個創作宇宙在不同階段留下的形態。 From traces left by the world, through cracks and time, to clay, persona, and line, life gradually takes form across different ways of seeing and different materials. These series are not separate categories, but different stages through which the same creative universe continues to unfold.
系列一 Series 1
生命的顯現 Manifestation of Life
在世界留下的石紋、木紋、舊牆與海岸痕跡中，我看見尚未成形的生命線索。當這些痕跡進入觀看，與想像和線條相遇，生命便逐漸顯現。 Within stone patterns, wood grain, old walls, and coastal traces, I begin to see unformed hints of life. As these traces enter seeing and meet imagination and line, life gradually emerges.
遠古的傳說：石板紋理中的線索，在觀看與線條之間逐漸成形；眼睛與面孔像遠古記號般慢慢顯現。 Ancient Legend: hints within the stone texture gradually take form through seeing and line; eyes and faces slowly emerge like ancient signs.
進入 Enter系列二 Series 2
古文明的裂生 Ancient Civilization Reborn Through Cracks
文明不是被完整復原，而是在殘片、裂縫與時間的沉積中，經由觀看、想像與陶土，逐漸生成新的生命形態。 Civilization is not fully restored. Within fragments, cracks, and sediments of time, new forms of life gradually emerge through seeing, imagination, and clay.
系列三 Series 3
陶與生命容器 Ceramic Beings
陶土不只是承載生命的容器，而是與雙手、觸覺、動作與想像一起參與生成的身體。從早期依循線稿的再創作，到後來逐漸放開既定形象，形體常常先於命名出現；眼睛、嘴巴、孔洞與曲面，也在捏塑與偶然之間慢慢長成可以凝視、呼吸與回應的生命。 Clay is not merely a vessel that holds life, but a body that takes part in its emergence together with the hands, touch, movement, and imagination. From early re-creations guided by drawings to later forms made with fewer predetermined images, form often appears before it is named; eyes, mouths, openings, and curves gradually grow through shaping and chance into lives that can gaze, breathe, and respond.
心生相：一件由閉眼、凝視與張口交疊而成的生命容器，像內心深處長出的形相，把尚未說出的靈魂顯影出來。 Inner Form: a life vessel where closed eyes, gaze, and an open mouth overlap, revealing a soul that has not yet spoken.
進入 Enter系列四 Series 4
人格考古學 Archaeology of Persona
人格不是固定的面孔，也不是最後被挖出的一個真正自我；它在自我、角色、記憶與生命經驗之間持續形成。一個形體可以容納多張臉、多個角色、多重觀看方向與內在層次，像一層仍在生成、仍可被重新閱讀的人格地層。 Persona is not a fixed face, nor a single true self waiting to be uncovered. It continues to take shape among self, roles, memory, and lived experience. One form can hold many faces, many roles, multiple directions of seeing, and inner layers, like a living stratum of persona that is still forming and open to reinterpretation.
來自視界之外：一個從視界之外走來的自我分身，帶著眼睛、孔洞與張開的口器接收世界，也向世界發出內在的聲音。 A persona arriving from beyond the field of vision, receiving the world while sending out an inner voice.
進入 Enter系列五 Series 5
線條生成 Line Generation
線條生成，是「生形」的開始：雙手先行，形體先於命名。我的線不是在描繪世界，而是在決定世界從哪裡開始；「又」不是簽名，而是生命生成的起點。當連續線開始流動、轉折與相遇，多重生命便在同一條線中逐漸顯現。 Line Generation begins with the emergence of form: the hands move first, and form appears before it is named. My line does not depict the world; it decides where the world begins. The character “又” is not a signature, but the starting point from which life begins to emerge. As continuous lines flow, turn, and meet, multiple lives gradually emerge within the same line.
04 / 早期創作 Early Works
所有相遇，都留下了痕跡 Early Works
早期創作像整個又禎宇宙最初的地層：陶土、紙面、木材與空間在這裡第一次彼此靠近。 The early works are the first strata of the Yuzen Universe: clay, paper, wood, and space first come close to one another here.
Early works form the first strata of Yuzen Universe, where clay, paper, wood, and space first came close.
我曾經想用作品，證明自己來過。
I once wanted my work to prove that I had been here.
後來才明白，存在不需要證明。
Only later did I understand that existence needs no proof.
我創作，我存在。
I create. I am.
創作即生命。
Creation is Life.
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