Bye Gyotaku, 2022 (Fishing rod as machine, sea water as ink, test paper as base.)
aquarium use 15 in 1 test strips, filter baseboard
Gyotaku has always been a method for anglers to use ink to print and record the actual size of the big fish caught as a commemorative method. The traditional method ends up using a brush to outline the fish's eyes on paper. This step is also the most artificially disturbed in the entire rubbing process.
Lui believes that the meaning of Gyotaku 's existence stems from complete reproduction, which is an ancient photography concept. The use of brush to draw the eye to fill in the essence not only adds the only artificial part of the art to the method of purely copying the outside, but also destroys the photographic method that is originally intended to be "simple record".
Lui has always been thinking about a new way of expressing fish rubbings, abandoning the traditional external images such as simply recording the size, outline and patterns of the fish body, and turning to the "ink" (sea water) that the fish body has as the rubbing medium. Foreign fish are always tested before entering an artificial environment to ensure that the water quality is not affected. This work uses the fish tank water quality test strips to spread as the bottom paper, and the filter bottom plate as the support plate. The seawater and mucus on the fish body will affect the color results of the test paper. The work attempts to record another kind of self-information of the fish through the interval considered by the function of the test paper, and develops a new abstract expression form that the fish extension can have both internal records and an abstraction.
抽象魚拓 2022 (魚竿為機，海水為墨，試紙為底)
水族箱用15合1試紙、過濾底板
魚拓 古今一直為垂釣者利用墨水進行拓印，記錄釣上大魚的實際尺寸作紀念的方法。傳統方法最後會在紙上利用毛筆勾勒魚的眼睛。這個步驟亦是整個拓印過程中最帶有人為美感干擾的。
雷氏認為魚拓的存在意義源於完全複製，是古時的一種攝影概念。利用毛筆畫眼補上神髓，既是令純粹複製外在的手法增添唯一人為藝術部份，同時亦是最破壞這個本意為了「單純記錄」的攝影手法。
雷氏一直思考一種新意義的魚拓表達形式，摒棄傳統單純記錄魚身花紋等外在形象，轉為透過魚身本身帶有的「墨水」（海水）作為拓印媒介。外來魚進入人工環境的魚缸前向來要作測試，確保不影響水質。本作品利用魚缸水質檢測試條鋪作底紙， 過濾底板作托版， 沾上魚身海水和黏液影響試紙顏色結果。作品嘗試透過試紙功能上考慮的間隔，記錄魚的另一種自身資訊；發展出魚拓可兼有內在記錄而抽象的新表達形式。