| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 美術學系碩士在職專班 === 104 === From fragments of memory, fixed stereotypes, and myself living in this city itself, the author''s current mood is linked and reflected in the people, events, and things, and all the emotions and time scenery are identified through the five senses - Eyes are used to see the scenery, ears are used to hear sounds, the nose is used to smell fragrant, the tongue is used to taste, and the body is used to feel and touch visible objects. Awareness is created by the five senses; and awareness is used to select and separate, allowing what is smelt, heard, eaten, and touched, to be transformed into symbols that depicts the image of the city which belongs to me. Through repeated observation, contemplation, and internalization, thoughts and feelings towards this city are continuously superimposed in the space-time of this memory, letting occurrences from my past, present and future form a memento, and even form strong feelings towards this city.
Accustomed to blending what is felt and the emotions of the moment into works, I reflect my fragments and internalized feelings on my creations, and allow my work to reflect something that is neither realistic nor abstract. On one hand, it is a way to recall, capturing moments in the past, present, and possible future, and show my personal memories of the scene. On the other hand, attention towards my memory and this city is summoned through seeing, smelling, tasting, hearing, and touching. “The moment” is confirmed from the back-and-forth linkage of time and scenery memories. And in this sort of self-confirmation process, self realization is found.
The creations mainly use ink as medium. To the author, painting is a form of reproducing nature and expressing internalized emotions. Calligraphy-like black ink and low-saturated colors often appear in the works. Regular and compact strokes, continuous hard texture, seemingly present color patches, the five senses are used to experience the surroundings of this city and the feelings towards this city that rise from subsequent awareness determination. Appearance of high-rise buildings, noisy crowds and cars, flashing neon lights during the night, and debauchery nightlife, until even after the curtains fall, everything returns to silence and emptiness. Therefore, the images form two types style: pure black and color. The color used is metaphorical for the space-time and emotions that are present in the picture. It is nothing but my every single feeling towards life in this city, as a stranger in a foreign land.
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