On the fourth night of the Lunar New Year, 2026, while Taipei was nearing midnight and New York was waking up, Liu Yu Hsin Cyn’s art work appeared on a billboard in Times Square.
Because “The Southern Wind”, by Golden Melody Award–winning 謝銘祐, kept rising, again and again, beside my ear,
at the turning of the year, I gathered my courage and placed into the world the first photobook of my life.
It did not feel like a decision. It felt more like arriving at a place where the wind opens— and suddenly knowing it was time to stop, to hold still, for a moment, the light and shadow I had carried all this way.
On the bookmark page, there is my own oil painting, paired with a single seal-script character: “South” (南). Not a direction, but a place— long recognized, long pointed out, by the wind itself.
My gratitude to Northern Lights Press, for such a gentle act of choosing, allowing this book to be received, and to be read all the way through.
Now, the book is sold out.
I remain where I am. The southern wind is still blowing.
I know something has been completed, yet it does not need to be called an ending only a quiet, certain arrival.