Sci-Fi and Childlike UFO-Shaped Bean Pod in National Center for Traditional Arts, Yilan

Lin Shuen-Long and the DADA IDEA team launched “Flying with Bean-pod UFO” in October 2021, located by the Moon River in the National Center for Traditional Arts, Yilan. Made of local dried straw, the giant bean pod is made through the traditional handicrafts of local elders. The enchanting work is full of futuristic sci-fi imagination.
Lin describes the concept of the work, “Beans from Jack and the Beanstalk grow into an enormous beanstalk reaching up into outer space, and the bean pod is made into a Bean-pod UFO by extraterrestrials. The Bean-pod UFO returns to Earth and lands on a lawn in the National Center for Traditional Arts in Yilan. The drowsy Bean-pod UFO opens its lid to expose three beans floating inside its cabin, with a wide-open mouth welcoming earthmen to play inside.”
For Lin, Yilan with beautiful scenery and a clean environment is an ideal place for the UFO to land on Earth, and the UFO would be disguised as an agricultural product on the grass.
“As the night falls, the Bean-pod UFO sparkles attractively beneath the starry sky as if communicating with someone in outer space. Sitting inside the swaying cabin, visitors may enjoy