海洋裡的生命密碼 Ⅱ
Life Code of the Sea Ⅱ

2001-2002 壓克力圓球127顆（每顆直徑23公分）、照片，魚線 L:550 x W:450 x H:260 cm
127 acrylic balls (each ball is 23 cm in diameter), photos, fishing line, L:550 x W:450 x H:260 cm

任何單純生物連鎖事件都有相對應的基因，而遺傳訊息也一直是生物間最隱而不顯的強大機制。父系與母系染色體經由重組（recombination）過程而產生的基因組合，是小孩接受父母給予的第一件禮物。
作品裡有著我與兩個孩子的許多遺傳特質，包括外表可視與行為特徵（眼、鼻、捲舌、耳垂、第一關節彎曲的拇指、腳指甲、肚臍、疤痕、捲毛髮），也包括了許多肉眼不可視的（血液與紅血球顯微鏡圖、性聯染色體的電子顯微鏡圖）。我將它們用我與小孩，或小孩之間相同部位的圖像，兩張正反的裝置在透明壓克力圓球之中，有的看似相仿、有的也竟有相當大的差異。在這裡，基因就如同是散佈在海洋裡的訊息密碼，乘載著生命特質的資訊。

Every purely biological chain incident has a corresponding gene, and hereditary signaling has always been the most powerful yet unseen biological mechanism. The process of mixing the mother's and father's chromosomes leads to genetic recombination, which is the first gift that children receive from their parents.

This work includes many genetic characteristics of two children and myself, including behavioral characteristics and visible appearance (eyes, nose, curled tongue, earlobes, thumb with a bent first joint, toenails, naval, scars, and curly hair), and also many invisible characteristics (microscopic images of blood and red blood cells, electron micrographs of sex-linked chromosomes). I use images of the same parts of the children and myself, or of two children, to illustrate these characteristics. Each pair of images is attached to the front and rear of a transparent acrylic ball, showing that the features are sometimes very similar, and sometimes quite different.

This expresses that genes are like messages and passwords scattered throughout an ocean, carrying information about the features of life.

參展紀錄 Recording of display

2002 「後解嚴時代的高雄藝術」，高雄市立美術館，台灣

2014 「許淑真紀念展」，高雄市立美術館，高雄，台灣

2002 Art in Kaohsiung after the Lifting of Martial Law, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2014 Commemorative Exhibition of Hsu Su-chen, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

典藏紀錄 Works in Collections

高雄市立美術館，台灣

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan