【Wallacean Form #31】
- 2011
- 115×200cm
- 氧化鐵紅石材手工研磨塗料和黑墨水
我的藝術創作包括繪畫、裝配藝術、聲音雕塑、特定地點裝置藝術、原創音樂會及表演藝術活動，我的作品反應澳洲的風景及其相關美學與多元文化經驗。它是一種文化認同的追求，也是一種處於風景內的歸屬感。我的素材很容易從環境中取得：木材、貝殼、骨、鏽鐵和各種天然碎石，我在澳洲草樹的樹脂上畫書法畫，並從家裡附近的海邊蒐集氧化鐵紅石，磨碎後做成大地紅色的顏料。
Wallacean系列的作品就是用這種氧化鐵紅石顏料做成的。在這系列中有想像的、抽象的植物、動物和類似人類的形體，靈感來自巨大的大陸棚碰撞之處，也就是Alfred Russel Wallace（1823-1913）所提出的假設線，標示出亞洲與澳洲動物地理區的界線。
我的經驗和旅行閱歷告訴我，文化差異很少會變成障礙，因為相互交流近乎人類本性。
【Wallacean Form #31】
- 2011
- 115×200cm
- Red oxide stones hand ground paint and black ink
My artistic activities embrace painting, assemblage, sound sculpture, site-specific installation, concerts of original music and performance art events. My work is in response to the Australian landscape, and its associated aesthetic and multi-cultural experience. It is a search for cultural identity and a sense for place in this landscape. I choose materials readily sourced from my environment: wood, shell, bone, rusted iron and all manner of natural detritus. I make calligraphic paintings in Xanthorreoa (grass tree) resin and collect red oxide stones from the shoreline of the ocean near my home and grind them together to make a rich earth-red pigment.
The Wallacean Series is executed in this red oxide pigment. The imagined, abstract flora, fauna and humanoid forms in the series are inspired by that formidable place where the great continental shelves collide* i.e.: the hypothetical line, proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), marking the boundary between the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions.
My experience and travels tells me that cultural difference is rarely a barrier and that mutual exchange is akin to human nature.