蕭 力綺
HSIAO Li-Chi
She walks in Beauty/Ugliness | 2014
When someone wrote "I am happy" on the community website, the community accepted "happy" but replaced "I" with "you".Then "You are happy" becoming a mind of this community. But in this Community, the word "you" in the sentence "you are happy" can't be defined to any single person. "You" can be the addresser; addressee or anyone exists inside or outside of the community. Now, if we rearrange the words of writer – "You are happy", "I am happy", "You are not happy", "I am not happy" – they don't violate the writer's original idea, and it also doesn't match the writer's idea form the beginning. However, it can stand for the community's mind. Therefore, when a person fits into a community, the community can make his/her words more powerful; on the other side, the community also weakens one's willing at the same time. In this work, I tried to use two opposite words for the community to choose. The mostly used can stand for the will of the community. In this case, I quoted a poem about "beauty", which full of beautiful and gentle words, written by English poet Byron after he met Mrs. Horton in a party. I pick up the adjectives about beauty, and choose opposite words, then count the statue on twitter with these words. And it will show the community's willing of "beauty" or "ugliness".