這件作品的影像素材來自2011年夏季，作者在台東自宅所拍攝到的海，也曾於作者2011年的個展中使用過。不過，本次經過重新編修，與本展另一件作品《穀雨》形成系列性的作品呈現。透過南風吹彿而異常浪花洶湧的海面，偶然群起的浪花排列文字，也彷彿急切想要對著人們訴說，海洋的心聲。作品回應了近年來許多商業開發案，犧牲了對自然生態環境的保護，漠視了原住民傳統領域的歷史延續與原民教育文化活動場域的保存和尊重。將海洋資源與土地BOT給財團進行營利活動，引發了許多社會團體進行討論與抗爭。作者以此簡單的”NOT FOR SALE”來傳達自然資源「不賣」的宣示，也希望引起觀眾對此作品產生共鳴，反思他們對這些議題的想法。
The video material of this piece is shot in the summer of 2011 by the artist on the balcony of her house in Taitung. This scene of the ocean was used before in Laza’s 2011 solo exhibition. But through this re-editing, she put together with another piece in this exhibition “THE RAINFALL OF RICE” to present as a series of works. We can see the spindrifts surging under the south wind, occasionally some groups of abnormal surging sea waves rallying arrangement of texts, which seems like the voice of the ocean eager telling their objection and refusing to commercialization.This works responds to lots of commercial development projects held in recent years. The costs are huge sacrifices on natural environment, and the goverment is ignoring the preservation and respect to the historical tradition field of Aboriginal people for continuing their cultural activities and education. The goverment takes finance advantage with BOT(Build–operate–transfer) mode to sell or lease natural resources such as marine resources or farmland to the enterprise consortiums for private profit making. This kind of projects have raise lots of discussions and protests by social communities. With this simple phrase “NOT FOR SALE” to convey the standpoint on natural resources as a declaration, and the artist also hope the audience can resonate with this work and reflect their thinking on these issues.
