Lacuna, 2019
Pen, gouache, watercolour, pencil on paper 79 x 111 cm Lacuna literally means “an unfilled space; a gap”. This work deals with my period of eco grief which followed my involvement with climate change activism. The iceberg theory from Virginia Satir utilizes the metaphor of an iceberg to represent human experiencing, so at the top there is your behaviour, and underneath that there are feelings, feelings about feelings, expectations, yearnings and at the bottom the self. Swimming down into the layers of the psyche and the body became a recurring theme around that period. The polar bear in this work swims down into a microscopic view of the human stomach wall, below which are some - soft on the inside but spikey and poisonous on the outside - sea urchins of buried trauma and other strange yet beautiful growths. |
〈空隙〉, 2019
原子筆、不透明水彩、透明水彩、鉛筆、紙 79 x 111 cm 作品的原名〈Lacuna〉字面上的意思正是「一個未被填滿的空間、空隙」。這幅作品描繪了我的氣候悲痛期(對環境破壞或氣候變化造成的損失的心理反應)以及悲痛期過後,我投入氣候變遷運動所經歷的變化。薩提爾(Virginia Satir)提出的冰山理論利用冰山比喻人類體驗。在冰山最上層(水面上)的是「行為」,往下(水面下)是「應對方式」、「情緒」、「期待」、「渴望」與最底層的「自我」。在那段期間裡,我一再再潛入心靈和身體探索我經歷的每一個冰山層次。作品中的北極熊游至畫作底部,以微觀的視角望著人體胃壁。在胃壁的下方有個海膽,海膽的外部充滿了刺與毒素,內部卻柔軟又脆弱,象徵埋藏在深處的創傷以及其他怪誕卻美麗的成長經歷。 |