This is the house that Jack built/杰克盖的房子
Color Pencil on Paper
Set of 10, 105×148mm
Introduction/介绍
"This is the house that Jack Built" is an English children's song in which each line follows the previous line, such as the first four verses: "This is the house that Jack built ; This is the bread, That lay in the house that Jack built; This is the rat, That ate the bread, That lay in the house that Jack built; This is the cat, That killed that rat, That ate the bread, That lay in the house that Jack built.”
In <The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City(Architecture of Despair)>, Margaret Morton documented one of the oldest surviving homeless communities in New York City, which has been hidden from public view in an underground train tunnel since the 1970s. Residents dwell in continual darkness along the two-and-a-half mile stretch, which is penetrated only by shafts of light angling through air vents. This work is narrated entirely by tunnel residents.
One of the homeless resident used the children's song 'This is the house that Jack Built' to describe his own life - fighting for bread with mice and cats. The project "This is the house that Jack Built" takes some stories from the book and create an image for each story. This project aims to transferred the flatted image of ‘homeless people’, who were counted as a number in the survey percentage of homeless people, into individuals who have untold life stories, in this way, can be remembered, seen, and respected.
杰克的房子（This is the house that Jack Built) 是一首英国儿歌，儿歌歌词里的每一句话都接着前一句话，例如前四节是：这是杰克盖的房子；这是面包，放在杰克的房子里；这是老鼠，吃了面包，躺在杰克的房子里；这是猫，它杀死了那只老鼠，老鼠吃了面包，躺在杰克的房子里。
在Margaret Morton 的《隧道：纽约地下无家可归者（绝望建筑）》一书中，他对纽约西区的一个隧道里的无家可归者社区进行了采访和调查，书中集锦了许多无家可归者的自述。其中一位无家可归者借用儿歌’杰克的房子（This is the house that Jack Built)‘戏谑的描述自己的生活——和老鼠和猫抢面包吃的日子。项目‘杰克的房子’从书中摘取了一些无家可归者的自述，将每个故事都绘制成了一幅图像。希望这些生前没有被尊重的‘人’，这些生前被作为街头流浪汉调查百分比中一个数字的人，这些无人传颂的人生故事，通过这种方式，可以被记住，被看到，被尊重。
Details/细节
Each illustration was created based on the life story of a homeless story.
每张绘画都根据一位无家可归者的生前故事绘制。
Let’s Light up a Candle Tonight/让我们今晚燃起蜡烛
Inspired by the stories of the bottle collectors in ‘This is the House that Jack Built’, I created 'Let's Light up a Candle Tonight', usin soy wax to create candles in the shape of wine bottles and kitchen utensils by hand.
The ritual of lighting a candle to pay tribute to a life of a loved one has long been a part of our culture. People light candles to honor a memory or pay tribute to a well-lived life. Taken each homeless person’s life as a wonderful life to remember with, I crated a ceremony in which I light up the candles and documented the process of them burning, as a remembrance.
受到‘杰克的房子’中收集酒瓶子的人的故事的启发，我创作了‘让我们今晚燃起蜡烛’，使用大豆蜡手捏的方法，创作了一些酒瓶子和厨具形状的蜡烛。最后，我将蜡烛们都点燃烧掉，在祭奠无家可归者们寂寞的一生，也发出美好的祈愿。
点燃蜡烛向逝去的亲人致敬的仪式一直是我们文化的一部分。人们点燃蜡烛来纪念一个美好的回忆或致敬一个美好的人值得纪念的一生。我进行了一场仪式，在仪式上我点燃这些手工制作的蜡烛，记录他们燃烧的过程，作为对这些无家可归的逝去生命的纪念。