A current carried across seventy-five years—
one shared spirit, unfolding through twelve moments in time.
Relay of Light, the 2022 calendar for Taiwan Power Company, begins with an archive—yet does not remain within it. Instead, it drifts, reassembles, and reimagines. Fragments of history are translated into a visual language where time is no longer linear, but layered.
At the center are the people of Taipower. Seen through a 45-degree, semi-isometric perspective, they move between realities—standing within spaces where memory, infrastructure, and imagination converge. Power plants, rural landscapes, transmission lines, and evolving technologies dissolve into surreal environments, each scene holding both the weight of history and the lightness of interpretation.
The imagery is accompanied by timelines—quiet structures of order beneath the fluidity. Icons and diagrams trace the passage of decades, offering another way of reading: one that is precise, yet open.
The cover brings together two figures from different eras—a bill collector from the past and a present-day line technician—meeting in a shared, undefined space. Between them lies not only time, but transformation.
Across the months, electricity becomes a narrative device. It travels through architecture, across fields, between islands, into disaster zones, and eventually into data and invisible systems. It is carried by hands, animals, machines, and numbers. It is both seen and unseen.
In the final convergence, systems of generation gather into a single field—an echo of accumulation. Through archival research and the act of drawing, the past is not simply preserved, but reactivated. What emerges is not a fixed history, but an ongoing presence.
No matter how technology shifts, there remains a constant gesture:
to move forward, to connect, to illuminate.