In residence at the Chiayi Art Museum “+1 Art Base” with the “Mapping project,” Chiu Yong-Jin explores the geographical context and natural landscape of Chiayi over the course of a century, contemplating the stimulation provided by the local landscape while organizing the convergence and loss of such an urban townscape.

Is the landscape natural? The Alisan Forest Railway departs from the center of Chiayi City, its railway carriage climbing in altitude from station to station, passing through suburban forests, tea fields, and betel trees. An endless vista of mountain ridges becomes an economic industry for local livelihood over time and space. Like a beautiful landscape, it is also a “real landscape” that cannot be ignored. Such a real texture manifests relations between humanity and nature, intertwined with evolutions of business cycles, and its effects on the development of a city.