《紋面》錄像行為通過在我的臉上黏貼透明膠帶並試模倣圖繪製傳統泰雅族女性紋面圖案，然而透明膠帶封住了我的嘴巴，屢次用麥克筆模仿女性文面圖形，最後以失敗的模仿而收場。如此行為讓我個人體驗到自己族群的聲音在現實中已被沉悶住，此行為作品試圖表達過往與現在的身體隔閡，影像中的字幕內容來自於別人對一位泰雅族女性老人的採訪，透過挪用的手法讓兩個不同世代的身體在影像中相會，試圖呈現一種世代的矛盾感受到，以及對於自身母體文化的脫離與異化。

This silent video performance piece depicts Ciwas sticking transparent tape on her forehead and muting her by stretching over her mouth and cheeks. Ciwas then slowly traces by memory with a permanent marker the common patterns of Atayal facial tattoos worn by only women. This traditional tattooing practice was used as a way of protecting Atayal women to identify them and also as a rite of passage as young women who were adept at weaving. During colonisation, this tattooing practice was banned and in most ways, lost as the Elders have passed. To address her unknowing, loss and discovery, Ciwas has sealed herself, and we must read the stories depicted by Elders interviewed who convey their understandings, knowledge and thoughts on the tattoo on faces practice.

"Lin attempts to navigate through the terrain of a synthetic materials producing patriarchy, with her make-do facial tattoo, which is overtly silencing. She can not speak. Lin`s work articulates the futility of attempting to recapture the power and respect once yielded by women in her ancestors`villages.” Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014.