What this work records is not just the moving images of face after face marked deeply by the tracks of their culture, it also records the history of their lives--the process of being forced to move their tribal villages by Japanese and the tragic scars left by the Atayal's resistance to the Japanese in order to preserve their tradition of facial tattoos.
這項工作所要留下的，不僅是一張張刻划著深刻文跡的動人影像，更紀錄了他們的生命史，包含他們的文面經歷，在日人逼迫下的部落遷徙過程，和泰雅族人為保留文面傳統，而與日本殖民統治者抗爭的悲壯事蹟。