Note: Cepo' kīn-ji̍t bô hong-thai is a juxtaposition of Amis and Taiwanese dialects to rephrase the sentence, ”There is no typhoon today.” "A Study of Tears in Makota’ay" is a work taking shape as an exhibition in order to give audiences more depth about the experience of the artist residency program for Mipaliw Land Art Festival in the Makota’ay tribe, located in Hualien, Taiwan. Along the processes of field work, the tradition of “pakelang” in Pangcah (a name that east-coast Amis tribe call themselves) culture in which grief and celebrations are combined as a fishing and feasting ritual. Nowhere Island Journal tries to re-contextualize the original pakelang ritual in a contemporary sense while reflecting on group members’ own identities that are at once foreign yet native to the land.