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Artist Memo: Jeffery Wechsler wrote "modern art of the 20th century, as the international art establishment views it, is historically defined as a progression of European and North American styles that developed without any essential or significant input from other regions.

Furthermore, and again probably unfairly, virtually all artists from other regions (Taiwan) who adopt modernism, or adapt to their regional styles, will have their art viewed, respectively, as derivative and historically too late to matter, or as a historically uncategorizable hybrid. Thus, the international standing of Taiwan modern art will ultimately rely on the creativity of individuals, responding in varying degrees to tradition, contemporary art trends, and the quest for a personal vision". A cultural/historical hybrid, I think, is similar to an artist or individual who travels around different realities with thought, crossing different borders without passport- In some aspects, a true creator and translator of her or his own.

Jeffery Wechsler" Taiwan: Toward a new tradition". Asian Art News (Volume 8 Number 3 May/June 1998): 42-4.

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