Borderline: Lucas K. Doolan Solo Exhibition

Steaming from his New Zealand heritage, and his South-Pacific connection being a New Zealander living in Taiwan, Lucas K. Doolan has been fascinated with the many different perceptions and connections to the “water-edge” here when he moved to Taiwan a few years ago.  New Zealand as an Island just like Taiwan, and yet people’s relationship to the water and the coastal area is very different between the two places.  The difference between here and there became very interesting for Lucas as he travels around the water-edge of Taiwan, and it is also this curiosity that had initiated this ongoing creative project in Taiwan – Borderline.
 
Borderline began as a photographic project two years ago, Lucas began this project by tracing and exploring the coastal areas on the East Coast of Taiwan – Carried on from his New Zealand relationship to the Pacific Ocean, Lucas began his photographic journey here.  Leading from the East Coast, Lucas has since visited the Northern, Western and Southern coastal areas over the last couple of years, building together an interesting set of images that narrated a very different perspective of the water-edge of the Island.
 
The documentation of the coastline extended into a fascination with the built-up areas around the coast, this photographic project later expanded from the seashore area into the other environments around the sea, observing the living and urban environments near the sea.  Lucas’s photographic journey seeks to understand the relationship between the coastal urban sites and the water-edge, his particular interests are often sites and buildings found in situations that is in between states of the common understanding of “urban” and “landscape”.
 
This exhibition would showcase works of Borderline in series of photographs, photographic experimentations, video work, installation, and series of mix-media figurative and abstract collage works.  While pursuing the photographic project looking for compositions and situations that presented some sort of unstable ground and undefined purposes between the city and the sea, Lucas also had been testing and developing the idea of “Borderline” into a creative approach/practice in order to produce further experiments and more interactive dialogues utilising this concept of “Borderline”.