IT ALL BEGINS IN THE SEA
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Endings and beginnings are always happening at the same time. Cells, water, air and earth are the important elements for life. They dissolve after life comes to an end, while new life is formed by the dissolved elements. By using the images of cells, water and earth, I create new organisms on the canvas. Although the images are separated into different pieces, they merge and become a new one. I believe the process of collage is similar to the process of life - with the canvas merely the medium for the merging and dividing of different elements. I loves observing the different forms of creatures and of natural phenomena, especially relating to the ocean. As I am obsessed with the process of deconstructing and recomposing. My works show the organic forms continuously splitting and combining, like replicating the evolution of life. When I was collaging ink-jet printing images, I do not treat it as a collage, but as a painting. I strive to merge thousands of pieces of paper into one scene. I have named this technique the “Free-style Puzzle” as the creation process is without a draft. Layers of paper and enlarged digital images of pixels create texture in my work. Non-traditional ink lines are applied with pieces of cell-imaged and water-imaged paper. In the ''It all begins in the sea'' series, I developed the Cells series, Water series and Reproducibility series and A Breath series from 2012 to 2015. The series of Cells started at 2012, influenced by her modern ink teacher Wucius Wong. I collage the ink-jet print paper of cells pattern and use Chinese ink to develop this series of work, including ‘Deep-sea Octopus’, ‘Plankton’, and ‘Expanding’. In 2013, I develop a new series of Water by collage the various form of water images. After a year of practice and development, I tried multi-layers of paper sticking and different color effect of ink-jet printing. Reproducibility series is the combination of both the Cells and Water series. Recently I was inspired by the nature during Taiwan residency and is developing A Breath series. |
始而末, 死即生。隨著環境變化, 生命的元素因死亡而分解, 重組而再生。我利用細胞及水土之圖像創造新生物, 縱使圖像在分裂, 同時亦在相生。我相信自然界中生命的過程與拼貼過程相約, 畫布只是各種元素分解與融合的載體。我喜愛觀察生物形態及自然現象, 對海洋生物由其熱衷。在拼貼作品前並沒有明確草圖, 排列方式只因隨著圖案本身之形狀及結構而連接, 順其自然地把紙張撕碎再合併, 重新拼合仿生物雛形。我喜歡解構與重組的過程, 作品所呈現因偶發性而組合有機形態正如生命演變過程, 細胞及水土圖像在畫布上重建另一個世界。 我在創作時並非視其為拼貼, 而是另一種繪畫方式, 沒有明確草圖, 如「自由式拼圖」般令數千張大小不一的紙碎合成為一個完整的畫面, 畫面的紋理是由多層紙張和數碼影像被放大後所像素所構成, 非傳統的筆墨線條由細胞及水的圖像碎片組成。 從2012到2015年間，我在《一切由海洋開始》的系列中發展了《細胞》,《水》,《再現性》以及《一息》系列。受到現代水墨老師王無邪影響, 我對水墨媒介的實驗性產生興趣, 2012年開始創作《細胞》系列, 我將細胞圖案以墨水打印方式打印在紙上再拼貼, 並以中國墨水加工, 此系列作品包括《深海八爪魚》、《浮游生物》、《擴張》等。於2013年我運用各種水的形態的圖案陸續發展出《水》系列。經過一年以來的練習和試驗, 我嘗試了多層紙張拼貼及各種墨水打印效果。2014年開始創作《再現性》系列, 利用《細胞》和《水》系列的作品圖像重組融合成再生的新圖像。最近亦因在台灣駐村時的受大自然啟發, 創作了《一息》。 |
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