Alias Zi-Fu, born in Banciao, New Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.) in 1976. In elementary
school she was in the class of children with music talents, she believes the music training that time has caused her ear ringing. 1998-2000 and 2012 to 2015, Zifu studied cinematics in France where she spent fantastic time and was enlightened by arts of diversified forms, including music she had felt passion in childhood. Zifu could listen to Léo Ferré’s "la mémoire et la mer” forever until the needle of the vinyl record drops and she imagines herself becoming a dancer in the wonderful music.
Greatly inspired by the collage style of a privately published poetry "she and her poetic life" by a group of writers, Zifu began her own creation of poetry through her collage-like
lifestyle. In addition to being a poetess, Zifu is the founder and art director of The Voyeur Theater and Director of ZiFu Film Studio as well as a freelancer of filmmaking.

She Is Not a Spectator, She Is Light

English version of the poem “她不是觀眾，她是光,” dedicated to Zi-Fu Chang

She once sat in the darkest corner of the theatre,
silent, watching actors forget their lines.
In a performance no one remembered,
she memorized every word lost to time.

She is not a spectator. She is light.
Seeping through the cracks of a poem,
glimmering in the rearview mirror of a taxi at dusk.
She sees with a director’s eye,
writes with a philosopher’s quiet ink.

She doesn’t care for branded tools,
but knows how to let water flow gently through a dripper,
how to coax golden flowers from a darkened brick.
The tea she brews, like the poems she writes,
is not loud—but lasting.

Some say she’s silent, introverted, melancholic,
yet her photos often smile,
as if throwing a shy riddle at the world.

She’s dreamed of revolutions in the streets, and cats.
She’s written of old lovers, of her father.
Once, she said: “I’m not sick, just single.”
A sentence clearer than any theory.

She left. She returned.
She calls herself a homebody,
but her stories keep us from ever leaving the stage.

If you meet her one day,
don’t just ask if she’s doing well.
Ask her—
Has a golden flower bloomed in your heart today?

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Taiwan