Ms. Secretary / Writer's Vessel

A typewriter, a pink colored stool, glasses, a quill pen and a red rose. These elements combine to form the image of a female secretary. A sensor activates the typewriter and as the sound of the keys undulates, the pink stool revolves at regular intervals. Between the repetition of the beating keys and the spinning chair, the youth of the secretary ebbs away.Shyu Ruey-shiann, who uses mechanical objects and machinery as his creative medium, has always striven to integrate different materials in his artistic work. In so doing, he utilizes art as a vehicle to transform the cold, hard feeling usually associated with things mechanical, creating works that are both warm and humorous. In the piece "Writer's Vessel", Shyu attaches feathers to a bicycle wheel frame. When a motor is switched on the wheel rotates and the feathers around the frame move back and forth, like a pen in the hand of a writer, writing words on the metal frame, the pen transformed into a boat, the metal plate into an ocean. In this slow and irregular rhythmic movement, such opposites as hot and cold, light and heavy infuse the machine with a degree of human warmth.