Metal Art with Cereal Compounds–Creation Descriptions by Ko Cheng-Hao

• Main Authors: KO,CHENG-HAO, 柯澄皓
• Other Authors: KE,CHI-HUEI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ds2vaf

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 造形藝術學系碩士班 === 107 === Cereal is one of the important categories of food for human beings. Because cereal brings satisfaction for us physically, grains like rice and wheat are recognized as symbols of harvest. A vitality in the cooking procedure of them draws my attention. Joy comes from the expectation of the appetite. Ingredients and cultures support and accompany each other in all time. In Chinese language, the homonyms of “Cake” (Gāo) and “rice cake” (Guì) sound the same as blessing words. Therefore, some products of rice and wheat are seen as mascots to bless each other and show the wellbeing in festival fests. Seeds are one of the forms in which plants store energy for breeding offspring. Some of them could still be cultivated and germinated after being stored for thousands years. Scientist can analyze seed grains and define their elemental structures however, for the perceptional cognitions such as color, texture and aroma are still puzzles. My experiments began by milling, steaming and boiling various of cereals. After drying I record the process and results in details. I am pleased their plain jet intimate and affirmed character inspired me, for I sense the tactile of which qualities through grains. In order to explore my sensibilities beyond the sense of taste in common daily grains. I work on jewelries as objective correlatives. The aesthetics in the background of my food culture as well as the latent power of the earth inspired me to apply the stability of metals through craftsman techniques and created three series of metalcrafts:《Gelatinization》,《Willful》and 《Conservation Seed》which are included in〈Metal Art with Cereal Compounds〉.