原住民祖先古老的傳統生活中，是透過感受外在世界的持續和變化，如觀測星辰日月的移動或是生物和環境的親近，之後將觀察的現象融合在語言和生活作息之中，逐漸累積成獨特的文化和時間，因此不依賴計時器和曆法發展了時間的網絡，但自古以來與時間有關的討論幾乎都與變化有關且緊密關連，若我們意識不到變化，不論是過去或是未來都和「現在」很難區別了。 因此時間它是一個陷阱，也是一種「線．阱」，無論線性的時間觀還是另一種被揶揄、調侃的所謂「原住民的時間」有著根本上的不同，而這些不同便是傳統與當代概念中不時出現的「陷阱」與「線阱」令人陷落、茫然…但這也是文化中的現象。

文化是在時間中累積、醞釀、成形、旋而又被打破、新建、重生、變化…而民族的創作者便要面對這樣的情境的思考、糾結。

In their traditional lifestyle, the ancestors of indigenous people in Taiwan incorporated what they observed from the continuities and changes in the outside world, such as the movements of the sun, moon, stars or the creatures in their surroundings, into their languages and rhythms of life. They gradually formed their unique cultures and a system of timekeeping that did not rely on any timer or calendar. All the discussions about time since antiquity all closely involve the presence of changes. If we are not aware of changes, it will be very difficult to distinguish “the present” from the past or the future.

Therefore, time itself is a trap, a trap of linearity. The so-called “indigenous time”, which has been a term of derision and ridicule, is different in essence from the linear time. Such a difference is as entrapping and disorienting as the trap in its traditional and contemporary sense…. However, this itself is also a kind of cultural phenomenon. Cultures are accumulated, cultivated, and formed over time and then deconstructed, reconstructed, reborn, and changed…. This is what indigenous artists have to face and struggle with in their artistic creation.