給 南方的風

偉大的蛇

 

將你的光 為我們盤繞

教我們 蛻下過去

如你 蛻去陳舊的皮

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教我們 輕巧地 行走

教我們 美妙的方式

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To the winds of the South：
Great Serpent，

Wrap your coils of light around us，
Teach us to shed the past the way 
you shed your skin；

To walk softly on the Earth，
Teach us the Beauty Way。

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The shamanic four winds medicine wheel is a life-long、endless journey that attempt to trace back where our soul grow, like season cycles，we keep the round trip between different directions where every trip carry a specific lesson for us；perhaps, in such sense, I will call my living in Fu-Zhou experience The South、The Land , and The Great Serpent.

I have been running Wasteland Art Space for almost 3 years in Fu-Zhou area, the place that I have spent my childhood for quite a while. I didn't really know how those things get started and to be done, or maybe I just couldn't find a word.


Words, words, words, sometimes I'm not really sure where they lead us to? Explanation bring a closer understanding between us , or in most cases that we normally be constrained in the word frame. 
Finding an accurate word is like to grab a small chance to deliver some light from the universe and stars. All the effort that we put on writing actually is very similar to the art expressions. 

In the book of 《 The Poetics of Space》, A French philosopher Gaston Bachelard mentioned the inherent quality and texture of the imagery of a simple house (la maison) and the cosmic sense co-exist in our deep and board conscious.

As he remind us， from the view of his own phenomenology, there will be no room for secrets to hide in a over-decorate mansion ; beauty destroy the sense of intimacy. Therefore， the first and the original house where we were born, the house in which we inscribed various living functions and levels, and the house that provided us with the inner land of our own, must be simple and simple. 

The essence of this simple house，build up our personalities and unique textures, makes it the original form of a house that accommodates all memories and all the homes that we come to experience later. If a local place can be seen as a form of a home imagery, I would say that Fu-Zhou may works as the first house that raise up my beginning textures — a simple and humble free land. 

During this period of time, by running the Wasteland Art Space and the Ca'fe , the feeling of charcoal drawing on my hands has long gone, all I remember is different smell from various hand creams after washing dishes that always reminds my days. 

Now I start to draw again, as all experiences start to work as a gift from the daily life over years, there comes this exhibition, it helps me to remark for the good days and hard days, to remark all sweet and great memories come from this place.


There are also some pictures display on the exhibition site, together with sentences and my free sketching works. Those photo shots with no intension to show or exhibit in the beginning while the flash lights on. Therefore, I will not call them " photographs" , but snap shot on a street instead. Those photos actually contained a timeline and a daily route、 the scenes that I have been stood somewhere in time and seeing, the street I keep comes and goes. 

There is a possibility that all 3 elements will work as a form of Total writing/ Holistic writing , a sketching as a whole. There is also a possibility that new things will born from their inter-reaction with each other. Perhaps they bring us a map、show us a route that oriente a dream state. 

 

Where the Great Serpent shed her skin,
The new chapter opens