南投縣布農人武界部落出生，是巫師的遺腹子，現定居澳洲。三歲到五歲部落的歲月，她得以洗禮在山靈的氣息中。然而多元文化的衝擊，流離失所生分了生命文化的信仰核心。失根的不安、不解、悲傷、無奈以及生氣，在某種形式的邊緣夾縫中，讓依法兒的生命從深林到都會的經驗中意識到文化包容性的重要性。如何安撫內心，僅有教育才能提釀深切的洞察力，才能認知苦其心志神聖的意涵都是為了能讓心中的眼睛看見，在世界的視野中用身體寫下文化衝擊及霸權下的世代創傷，提升「人道」的價值與語言的力量。所以用藝術回歸曾經走遠過的母體文化。

      波蘭畫家Wladyslaw Streminski說過：現代的藝術應該完整明白的呈現，才能被認知，不是因為有實用性，而是它至高的特質。他也說過，藝術只有在現實中才有力量。對原住民族而言，土地便是現實的力量，因為她是生命與所有關係的平台，及其所衍生的信仰與價值觀。所以，海外漂流20多年的心，在「原生性」內我的覺醒下，透過視覺藝術的呈現，依法兒將神聖的古老智慧，也就是對我們的母體：「土地」，或母親的愛，概念化地表達生命的敬仰與尊重，為此，期許引領下一代看見原/源生之美，與觀者共鳴，與觀者對話，畫(話)出台灣的原來面貌與身份認同！
    

      Eval Malinjinnan as born in the Bunun community, Bokhai, Nantou County, Taiwan. She is a posthumous child of a Bunun Shaman father; she currently lives in Australia. Eval’s upbringing was guided by the way of Nativism as she was immersed in great nature from the age of 3 to 5.  Following by the cultural coercion, she was inevitably divorced from her initiated belief matrix into the unknown. However, the uprooted identity where she was perplexed, saddened and somehow survived from the edge of oblivion gave her an open door to discover greater cultural competency. Eval believes that the Indigenous Knowledge and education can bring the insight of life. She also asserts that time can fix our past leading to the realization of seeing our history as a sacred path to the whole. Through the mind’s eye, Eval hopes to document the mutual intergenerational trauma across the globe caused by cultural hegemony in the language of physical experiences in order to ignite the awareness of humanity and the people’s voice. In this sense, Eval eagerly brings her once discarded identity back in art.

      The Polish painter Wladyslaw Streminski stressed that “the new art should present itself openly, should appear with no veil or mask on its face and demand recognition not for its usefulness, but for its superiority”. He also believed that art is powerful only in real life. Thus, land is not just land alone to Indigenous peoples, it is the resilience of the land, the nature of the land and how we reflect all relationships and values within our lives. Therefore, what about land is our reality, the foundation of life and the dynamic of our belief. Creativity of the artist begins only after absorption, and not just a partial one. Accordingly, drafting away more than decades, in light of awakened ‘Indigeneity’, Eval has come to realize that the predicament of Indigenous life resembles a wobbling leaf in the air that eventually will return to Mother Earth awaiting another cycle of life. Her enlightenment is to bring awareness of sacred teachings to the world in the form of visual art and story in hoping to bring back the respect to land, our matrix, guiding children returning to the home of heart. Giving impetus to a dialogue with audience, envision to shed light on world that we are still here.