Artist Statement

I am an artist based in Yiland, Taiwan. I paint with oil pastels and mixed media.

In my recent exhibition – “Border”, I continue to explore human nature and the environment. I am obsessed with testing my instincts. There is no sketch or draft involved during my creating process. Most of my paintings were presented with lines, and various colors of lines influence with each other. Eventually, they mingle and create an illusion, a mental color appeared in a viewer’s field of vision.

The ancient Chinese ink landscape painting portrays the Buddhist’s idea of “Seeing One’s Essence”. With neat and dense lines, I employ the mountains, islets and human figures as metaphors, to depict the ephemeral nature of the world. The lines also symbolize shackles of the flesh and the never-ending challenges throughout one’s life.

In my paintings, whether portraits or landscape, are all connected by the same steady stroke of hand. This is an invisible technological signal, like a secret net that surrounds people’s lives and even thoughts, broadening one’s thoughts and leading trends just like that of the internet.

However, it also makes people blindly follow and indirectly imprison the mind. Does this phenomenon explain how human emotions are gradually pulled and bound to the same rhythm unconsciously? Or if the ever-changing waves and rolling hills become captive of human technology?

I propose multi-angle views allowing viewers to re-examine their own behavior and the external environment. Can one’s soul stay naive and free in the face of the current 3C situation? The silence of a painting opens up more possibilities of speech and I hope my work could remind people that we are slowly losing this beautiful earth.

“I believe that each of us needs an “island” to represent the future. Whether the island is small or large, it would be a focus to build our own life. As a symbolic sign, the island also speaks for a mystery, opportunity, and hope for rebirth.”
WU Hsichi

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