“Is anything permanent? I believe so, and you’d best believe it too.”

A pinball machine also exists in artist Liu Han-qing’s world, filled with toys and collectibles from Japanese and Taiwanese TV shows. He takes his crazy passion for them and invests time, money, and desire to collect into artwork, taking objects that were once archived in glass display cases and transforming them into unique pieces. Collecting isn’t something static, after all – once you acquire something, joy is accompanied by a sense of loss. But once you upgrade it into artwork, it becomes something complete, a form of self-expression.

「世上有什麼不會失去的東西嗎？我相信有，你最好也相信。」

藝術家李瀚卿的世界裡也有一台彈珠遊戲，裡面裝滿了從小收集來的日本動漫玩具、國內外購買的公仔及珍藏模型。因為愛得太濃烈、太痴狂，於是把投擲過多的時間、金錢、收藏慾望慢慢轉移到畫布上，透過創作過程，將原本封存在玻璃展示櫃中的擺飾物件，直接轉化成平面藝術呈現，讓作品本身也成為獨一無二的收藏。因為收藏是一種進行式，一旦得手之後，喜悅之情伴隨而來的是無盡地失落，但若將其昇華為藝術品，那則是一種自我實現的完成式。