When I saw these massed collection in the War Museum, Edinburgh, I'm so shock! I don't want to image what kind of thing people did then they can collect that much medals during the war. Not only the medals also many flags and objects from people attend war. People collect them as a honor and glory. But I just see the sadness and the sense of helplessness behind theses collection. In that time, people lost the identity about who they are during the war. Is that still the same in nowday but just the way for identity from the medal change to the material object?!
War Museum, Edinburgh
Medal collector
Somehow people always seem to want their lives to become better but what they mean by “better” seems never ending or never right. In this endless seeking, people gradually used visible and fast-pace material comforts to represent the value of a person. Artist Yu Wen Chien takes the images which society used to define value and transforms them into the figure of war medal. Nowadays people own objects just like collecting medals, and used them as a proof of self-value. However, no matter how many medals they get, or how much honor and glory, they are in spirit just like a war hero who has a mass of medals, but still cannot make up for the loss from the war.
War Museum, Edinburgh
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