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TaoTao Brings Good Fortune
“TaoTao Brings Good Fortune” is a large-scale inflatable installation placed atop the New Yonghe Market building. Featuring TaoTao, Taoyuan’s AI tourism assistant, as its protagonist, the work transforms the familiar New Year blessing of “bringing good news” into a visible urban language of light, seen simply by looking up. Beyond its appearance as a lovable character, it serves as a welcoming signal elevated above the city: guiding visitors from afar and, up close, adding a gentle glow of festive reassurance to the surroundings.
Constructed with inflatable membrane materials, TaoTao appears full, soft, and approachable in form – like a joyful cloud resting on the rooftop. From above, TaoTao greets the crowd, symbolizing Taoyuan’s warm and friendly welcome to visitors from all directions. Without elaborate words, the city introduces itself in a single, upward glance.
Full of Horsepower
Transforming “full power” into “full harvest,” this installation symbolizes agriculture as the foundation of abundance and highlights farming as a core source of life energy. Featuring a dreamlike winged unicorn-horse as its central figure, the work captures a powerful moment of galloping forward and taking flight – an embodiment of Taoyuan agriculture’s continuous breakthroughs and dynamic momentum, while carrying the land’s deep-rooted hope. The rustic texture of straw further conveys the spirit of land cycles and sustainable agriculture in coexistence.
Behind it, the “Peach Joy Carriage,” inspired by Taoyuan’s famous Lala Mountain peaches, is accompanied by radiant, auspicious clouds. Loaded with bamboo shoots symbolizing steady growth, persimmons representing fulfilled wishes, and a variety of Taoyuan fruits and vegetables, the scene celebrates a brilliant chapter of Taoyuan agriculture moving forward at full horsepower.
