00:00 – 01:32 

Scientists from Taiwans Japanese colonial period discovered them in a river near Ma’oto. They were panned from sand, similar to panning for gold.

This type of zircon draws a great deal of interest due to its special shape. They are only found in alkali basalts.

During Japanese colonial period in Taiwan, when they arrived, they initially knew nothing about Taiwans geology, meaning that everything had to be developed from zero.

These experts, teachers when they came to Taiwan, the task they were given was to first understand the entire geology of Taiwan.

They were able to first construct a geological map of Taiwan which was already a very uneasy task to accomplish.

Because of these fundamental surveys we were then able to build from it with greater details.

As for these zircons, what our generation could do was to categorize them.

I’ve also used some scientific methods to assess the age of these zircons.

07:12 – 07:51

Zircon, this nuclear decay calculator has emerged since the dawn of time, since hundreds of millions of years ago to tens of millions to several million years.

This is a colossal narrative spanning across millions of years. It is a dialogue of intense space-time incongruity.

With these large-scale tectonic movements, each scene was a long process that species went extinct waiting over.

To use the dimension of a day, it means waiting till the last few minutes of 23:00 then the time scale will gradually lessen, and then returned back to us again.

The text fragments are excerpts
from the video work „Mineral Craft“.
The video work is subtitled in english.
Translations into German by
the Kunsthaus Dresden.