My mouth didn’t stutter but my heart did is a work made in response to the long-standing environmental tension between Houjin community and Kaohsiung refinery of the Chinese Petroleum Corporation(CPC). With the gasoline pump strips of its facade revealing basic essentials of life, interspersing with the voices of the individuals affected by their environment has become. It is a subtle reminder of how dependent we are on oil,yet we cannot be entire void of it without impacting the environment and the people.