Dust In The Wind

Buff Diss is keen to explore the ways a city is portrayed, the relations between the people and their surroundings, and the stories of the city. He always uses the city as canvas to depict the dialogue between the streets and the crowds. Buff Diss paints landscapes and stories through arranging and taping the PVC tapes on canvas. Lines crisscross through the city veneer, etching out the bone structure and imaginations underneath. The tapes add emotions and expressions, creating three-dimensional layers and penetrations that make them more than just materials but also storytelling magic.
The ""Dust In The Wind"" on the Xinyi Skywalk- Taipei 101 section is named after director Hou Hsiao-Hsien’ s 1986 film. Buff Diss' site-specific piece is his attempt to take a snapshot of the flows of the city life in Taipei. The skywalk's floor tiling makes the prefect background to depict similarity between the formulaic grids and the institutionalized society. Also visible are the white lines that flow randomly like some organic beings. The final bald touch of bright yellow provides a constant pointer guiding the people on their way forward. All these contrasts depict the life of the modern day folks. Buff Diss lends his imagination to re-interpret the urban space. Not only does his artwork raise our awareness of the sense of space, it also infuses our life with humor and philosophy, inspiring us to slow down and pause for a moment of thought.