The
work is to explore the harmony elaboration celebration of man-made design and
the design of nature as a whole. For as Mrs Wingate has pointed out in the book
of Chinese landscape painting. "The
difference between man-made elaboration and natural elaboration is that one is
haphazard and the other is exact; the one excites the senses, the other satisfies
it; the one distracts the eyes, the other fills it and gives it rest." I
think it is the endless tensions between these two opposed conditions which generate
the vitality rhythm of life itself. As F. Scoll Fitzgerald used to say:
"The test of a first-rate
intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideals in the mind at the same
time and still retain the ability to function." However,
the limitation and alienation of mankind, it is an endless task to search for
balance of human relationship in the society. More symbolically, my artwork is
trying to translate this into metaphysical principles binding 'self' and others
into an indestructible union of order and harmony." |