Early Life and Formative Influences Wu Tien-chang, born in 1956 in Changhua, Taiwan, is an artist whose work serves as a powerful visual chronicle of his nation’s complex journey through political and social transformation. His upbringing was deeply interwoven with the fabric of Taiwanese life during a period of significant upheaval. The legacy of his grandfather's emigration from mainland China to marry an aboriginal Taiwanese grandmother speaks volumes about the island’s layered history, a theme that would become central to Wu’s artistic exploration. His parents’ occupation – his father p…