PTS 'Art Is Something' Features Artist Cheng Yuan-Yang's Regenerative Design from Waste

(Central News Agency, reporter Chiu Tzu-yin, Taipei, 4th) The latest episode of PTS's 'Art Is Something' features 'Light in Waste: Cheng Yuan-Yang's Regenerative Design,' documenting how artist Cheng Yuan-Yang discovers the life and value of materials from废弃物.

According to a press release from PTS, Cheng Yuan-Yang stated that these materials have a sense of time, which is not man-made but created by time. He describes rust, wear, and pitting as textures slowly carved by time. 'It's trash, but it's full of the traces of time. We can't make it, but time can,' he said.

This fascination with the 'sense of time' became a crucial starting point for Cheng's involvement in regenerative design. In 2010, he founded a new brand, META Design, based on Kang Fu Lighting. Cheng admitted that initially, he simply found these materials beautiful, but this gradually coalesced into deeper thinking.

Cheng felt, 'It's clearly still usable, so why must it be thrown away?' This evolved into his core philosophy: 'We humans have already extracted so many resources from the earth. Can't we make better use of them?'

Along the way, some have mocked him, asking 'Why bother with all this hard work?' But Cheng has always believed that what truly matters in regenerative design is not just creating a piece of work, but through action, reminding people, 'We humans have already taken enough. Can we cherish what we already have and what we have already taken more?'

The program is now available on the 'Art Is Something' YouTube channel and the 'PTS+' streaming platform. (Editor: Lung Po-an) 1150604