I Had A Dream

在這裡說話和正在畫著地圖的Dopi，在這次的過程中時常帶領著我們到許多的地方，而每到一個地方他總是會找到時機點對著空氣說話，他說要幫我們先知會在那裡的神靈。

The elder Dopi, who explained when he was drawing the map in Jemeri, has brought us around many places.  Wherever we went, he would always talk to the air. He said he was telling to his ancestors that we are new here.

On our journey along the river, Jeffrey asked me or people he met : “Do you have boats?” or “What’s your ship-building method? In fact, I didn't knew, yet eager to know whether there are boats in my culture. Sometimes, I would think of the myth of our ancestor’s origin and imagine what kind of boat our ancestors took to escape the flood. When Dobi was drawing the map of the river slowly with his pen --- the expression on his face was as if he was riding a canoe by himself, visioning his sails in every river channel he knew --- What would the voyage in his mind look like?

Lakec’s project is intertwined with the dialogue, doubts, and questions between the people, things, matters, and places I have encountered. Sometimes they reappear as the errors and lost in the translation. Sometimes, they are words and taboos muttered in the air or to the trees by the people of Jemeri. I can only approach and understand from my limited position. At the end of the journey, it occurred to me that the cifar made of betel nut sheath is a food container that Fata'an people have known of since childhood -- the word cifar also means boat/ship.