For over thirty years, Iming, an Indigenous artist of the Puyuma people from the Katratripulr (Katatipu) community in Taitung (Zhiben), has been devoted to driftwood sculpture. His early works are characterized by semi-figurative, semi-abstract geometric forms that offer direct yet leaping narratives of tribal life and culture.

In 2008, he was invited to a residency and cultural exchange at the Centre Culturel Tjibaou in New Caledonia. The following year, Typhoon Morakot devastated southern Taiwan. These encounters—both abroad and at home—deeply impacted Iming and prompted a shift in his artistic language. Moving away from traditional cultural storytelling, he began to explore how the physical structure of driftwood itself could be used to express the shared conditions of loss and marginalization faced by Indigenous peoples worldwide in the era of the Anthropocene.

In 2012, his series Take It Away won First Prize at the inaugural Pulima Art Award and was later acquired by the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.

In 2020, he and his partner founded the "Jao Ai-Chin & Iming Studio," a creative space rooted in a philosophy of natural living and aesthetics, reflecting their individual practices as well as their deeply connected partnership.

In 2023, Iming and Ai-Chin held a joint solo exhibition at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.
In March 2025, Iming is scheduled to present a solo exhibition at the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Park in Pingtung.