2010, on the fringes of the Sahel region of Africa, the OPIC Oil Company extracted a four-meter-long core sample from 3,000 meters beneath the surface of the earth. This Precambrian core sample was sealed and shipped to Taiwan on an oil tanker and then divided into several pieces and given to various research institutions. One of the pieces was transferred to the private collection of LIN Jin-da and gifted to his friend YU Cheng-Che. In 2020, the duo decided to expand the site which had been preserving the core sample into the Huesio Geological Museum. LIN and YU’s partnership began back in 2002, with the collaborative project named NO Internet Forum, with an extension of MOCA NO in 2006, along with a mountaineering club of the same name.
The two have continued their repeated discussions and dialectics of the concepts of “None” and “Nature”, with the Huesio Geological Museum being the latest project in this continued endeavor. The Huesio Geological Museum extends its vision from the broad geological landscape to isolated individuals; focuses on the preservation, study, and interpretation of the survival experiences of individuals and their descriptions of the world.

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Located at the junction of three ancient villages in Changhua County, the Huesio Geological Museum sits at the intersection of three historical settlements, Huesio village, Tianzhongyang village, and Gouzao village. Hidden within the first floor of a private residence, the site of the museum’s building was originally a Qing Dynasty cemetery. The Sahel Round Table at the center of the museum is a place where residents of Huesio village can converse and interact, connecting the irregularity of opportunities, encounters, and characters in one another's lives, further intersecting into various narratives of parallel development. The small museum space is divided into "Orchid Kitchen" and "Mineral Room". Orchid Kitchen is a compiled archive which preserves the various forms of data on the "NO" group since its original conception 20 years ago. The Mineral Room provides temporary storage for objects awaiting the process of logging and archiving into the collection. Items of collection are scattered and placed throughout the home space, being another part of the museum's overall narrative. In addition to the space in the museum itself, miniature exhibition spaces are set up in the surrounding villages and towns to supplement on going exhibitions.