Dear Xeni:

Hi. I am a blogger inhabiting in Taiwan. I am glad to visit your website about the SARS art project, but I noticed that there was no works from the artists in Taiwan. therefore i would like to share my works. I created a series of comics concerning on the issues about SARS, in those works, I combined two hottest issues in Taiwan, one is SARS, and the other one is a popular TV show - The Taiwan Thunder Fire.

I let the protagonist if that TV show to be the protagonist of this series of comics. He is Liu Wen-Tsung the Beast (劉文聰, I do not know if you can read the Traditional Chinese Characters used in Taiwan) performed by a Taiwanese actor Ching Young. Liu Wen-Tsung is a nerver-nice guy in that show, he made his father bankrupted and killed a lot for his own benefits. he is cool and tough, that lets him have a nickname 'the Beast' and makes him well-known and loved by the audience. That is why my works are named 'The Diary of the Beast about SARS'.

 

Liu the Beast had speak a famous diction to show how cool and tough he is, that is: "Do not make me upset, if I were upset, I would be angry; if I were angry, I would like to revenge; If I start to revenge, who will be the next dead man? Nobody can  know even myself!." I  alteted this diction into: "Do not let me infected with SARS, if i were infected, I would be feverish; If I were feverish, I would like to cough;If I cough, I would be a source to spread the virus; If I start to spread the virus, Nobody can  know even myself!." in the work below. The third picture shows Liu the Beast is spreading the virus to the gang in his leadership, they are named 'The Zombie', 'The Monk', 'The Black Cock' and 'The Bull' in the TV show, I replaced the real figures of them with the figures of their nickname. And the final picture shows Liu the Beast made his lover Wang Yong-Huei died in SARS.

Liu the Beast often revenge to his foes with giving them one bottle of oil and one match, that means he would like to burn them to death. After the SARS spreading in Taiwan. the goverment in Tawian planed to participate the World Health Organization in oder to obtain the international help. This plan was spoiled by the People Republic of China goverment, the PRC considers that Taiwan is a province but not a independent country because of the historical context. The work velow shows that the PRC forbids the minister of health of the Taiwan goverment Chien Jen Zen to present in the WHO, just like giving people in Taiwan 'one bottle of oil and one match' and burn them to death, like Liu that Beast did. The final picture shows that Liu the Beast want to compain to the author of this work , yea, that is me, he complains that How can the author let PRC simulate him. the author answers that there are many guys are even tougher then Liu the Beast.

The final work below shows the end of Liu in the TV show - Taiwan Thunder Fire. The playwright once announced that he will let Liu kill his self with a grenade, because one day he find his self has commited too many crimes and that brought misfortune to his lover. However, there is another bad guy Lin becomes a volunteer to fight with SARS in the hospitals after his repentance. Liu thinks that he can be a volunteer too but not necessary to kill his self, then he gives the playwright one bottle of oil and one match.

Those works were originally posted in my own personal weblog - zonble's @rsenal (http://zonble.twbbs.org). I hope that those works may help the SARS art project.

Sincerely,

Weichung Yang