一般雜誌大多以展現亮麗、出色的人事物，開啟我們對美好生活的嚮往；挑選最適合、最好看的照片，最精彩、最正向的故事吸引受眾。我們不會知道手上這本雜誌背後，有多少被刪去的圖文，多少工時與勞力的付出，而最後這些得以被看見的人事物，又是經歷了多少次的踩空及墜谷；如同大部分的人一天又一天的勞作，極少時刻被頌揚些許可圈可點佳績，大多時候放手普通的事實，與埋藏不堪的陰影。我並非對此感到嘆息，而是在忙於好好活著的片刻休息中，忽然感悟到就在某一天，我們會知道過去的陰影是上天贈予的考驗，還是個人行為的自食其果；我們會知道，目前為止看似雜訊的粗粒子是否可以築構出美麗的人生。然而，當我們在賦予人事物一個正向的標籤時，標準是否過於單一化？或許過於迎合甚至昧於主流，逐漸忘了從多方角度觀看的可能性。進一步思考，當我們在觀看人事物的光明面向時，是否在意過所見之外、表象之下的內容。我企圖藉由〈美麗人生雜誌〉創作計畫重新思考美麗人生的定義，以及探究萬物的本質與真相。

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〈美麗人生雜誌〉創作計畫是匯集作者過往的拍攝，製作以及檔案。那些內容不足以被讚揚，也無法為觀者帶來喜悅感的影像，還有被好好收著、不提及就鮮少想起的文件。作為曾經努力過的證明，它們與過去、現在，和未來相關聯。雖然無法成為萬中取一，卻是絕對真實的；是層層累積造就了現在，是堅持換得了一個在未來某天驚訝的瞬間。

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《美麗人生》雜誌一共十六期，內容分別暗示了創作者眼中的人生十六個真相：人生總會有嘗鮮的欲望，人生總會有被銘記的遺忘，人生有如逃脫計畫，人生影影绰绰，人生是一種反複修習，人生的終點可見，人生看不清，人生的時光寶貴，人生其實無人能懂，人生其實耐人尋味，人生就是日復一日，人生得學著接受，人生得學著擁抱，人生一直如此，人生處理的是與世界的關係，人生處理的是與自己的關係。

 

Most magazines open up our yearning for a better life by showing beautiful and outstanding people and things; choose the most suitable and best-looking photos, and attract the audience with the most exciting and positive stories. We neglect the deleted pictures and text, the hours and labor cost behind it, as well as the difficulties encountered by people and things. As most people working day after day, they are rarely praised for good achievements, while most of the time they let go the facts and bury shadows. I am not sighing about it, yet during a short break in the busy life, I suddenly realize that someday we will know whether the shadow of the past is a gift from God, or the result of personal behavior; we will know whether the coarse particles that seem to be noise so far can build a beautiful life. However, when we are giving people and things the positive label, are the standards too simplistic? Maybe it caters to too much or knows nothing about the mainstream, and gradually forgets the possibility of looking at it from multiple angles. Furthermore, when we are looking at the bright side of people and things, whether we concern about the content beyond what we see and below the surface. I intend to reconsider the definition of a beautiful life and explore the essence and truth about the Universe through the project: Beauty Life Magazine.

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Beauty Life magazine is a collection of the author's previous photographic and archival materials. The content of those are not enough to be praised, nor can they create joys for viewers, and also those documents that are kept well and rarely recalled. As the proof of the effort, they are actually real and with the past, present, and the future are connected. Although they are not the best, they are definitely true. Accumulation has created the present, and believing that due to the perseverance, we will win a surprise one day in the future.

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There are 16 issues of Beauty Life magazine hinting at 16 truths in Bing-Chi's eyes: The desire to try new things, Remember the forgetting, Like an escape plan, Full of shadows, A kind of repeated practice, The end can be seen, Not clear, Time is precious, No one can understand, Is interesting, Day after day, Learn to accept, Learn to embrace, Always been like this, Handle the relations with the world, Handle the relations with your own.

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