The 2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival "Light Up the Future" was held in Taipei, and it was the first international event after the COVID restrictions were lifted. More than 12 million people attended the festival. The light artworks exhibited in the show, were made by many outstanding artists from home and abroad. Among them, the work "Sailing Castle Ren'ai," which was located in "the Beacons of Light Display Zone" in the East District commercial area, was made by Taiwan artist Feng Cheng-tsung.
"Sailing Castle Ren'ai" was a large-scale architectural imaginary work built with woods, iron, and steel cables, and was displayed in Dunren Park, Ren'ai borough. The structure with sails was to interpret the urban landscape, creating a landmark for local people, and a place where old and new memories of the city overlap. The first work of the series "Sailing Castle" was displayed at the 2019 Taiwan Lantern Festival in Pingtung, which has won the Red Dot Design Award. In 2021, Feng launched the "Sailing Castle Fuzhong" outside the MRT Fuzhong Station Entrance Exit 3, which was also impressed by local residents.
Feng Cheng-tsung, born in 1987, his artworks are well-known for combining traditional craftsmanship with modern art designs. He has collaborated with many big brands such as Hermès, Nike, Apple, and Eslite. Feng is famous for his reinterpretation of traditional bamboo craftsmanship. His projects are often a culmination of various ancient wisdom and artisanal knowledge of experts in different fields. One of his most recent work "Fish Trap House VII" was built in New York in 2022, marking him as the first Taiwanese artist to exhibit artwork at the LongHouse Reserve. Before he came up with this design, Feng learned the traditional making methods for bamboo fish traps used by the indigenous Thao tribe. The fish trap house became a series of installations around the world, rather than capturing fish, it captures people's attention.
2023年台灣燈會，睽違23年再次舉辦在台北，也是疫情解封後首場國際大型活動，吸引一千兩百多萬人前來參加。這些琳瑯滿目的燈飾作品，集結了眾多優秀的國內外藝術家的巧思，而其中，位於東區商圈光源展區的作品「仁愛帆城」，是出自藝術家范承宗之手。
「仁愛帆城(Sailing Castle Ren'ai)」展於敦仁公園內，是以實木、鐵件、鋼索等媒材，打造的大型建築意象作品。以木結構張起錯落的船帆，詮釋東區巷弄間建築林立的樣貌，搭起這座讓人駐足、穿梭的地標，成為城市眾人相聚、新舊記憶疊合的所在。「帆城」系列的第一樣作品在2019年屏東燈會展出，並以此獲得國際多項設計大獎，21年再出「府中帆城」，在府中捷運站前廣場展出，而這次的仁愛帆城，亦承接了本次燈會主題「光源台北」，並融合地方人文、地景，受到好評。
生於1987年，范承宗是台灣年輕一代的藝術創作者，20多歲就在國際大獎上嶄露頭角的他，卻不嚮往大公司上班生活，毅然決然搬到南投，四處和老師傅學習竹編和傳統工藝技法。他的作品以台灣傳統工藝結合藝術觀點聞名，作品中時常結合竹編傳統工藝技法，這些年來與不少國際知名品牌例如愛馬仕(Hermès)、Nike、Aesop、百富威士忌、Loewe等進行合作，2022年更於紐約長島展出的《筌屋》，成為他的代表作之一，也讓他成為首位在「長屋花園（LongHouseReserve）」裡展出的台灣藝術家。紐約的這座筌屋是此系列的第七作，范承宗表示創作的來源是他在日月潭向向邵族耆老學習的編織捕魚器的技藝，材料全部來自台灣的竹子。對於傳統工藝與現代藝術的結合，他仍不遺餘力地在做出新嘗試。