無憂的島嶼

Worry-free Island

《無憂的島嶼》創作自述

城市跟晃遊者的關係是密不可分的,在〈無憂的島嶼〉系列當中,雖看不見晃遊者的身影,但是他們並非不在現場,反藉由旁觀的角度來凸顯場景本身。
以熟悉的建築、城市、居住環境、社會議題以及旅行所見,來構築一個虛擬的島嶼,重現一個已開發島嶼國家的地景。然而,在島嶼上生活的人們,對於城市、島嶼所發生的種種,經常無力改變,一如班雅明(Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940)所提『…面對城市的無能為力…』,藝術工作者將眼睛所見,透過繪畫的語彙改寫、延伸、重新建構,創造出似是而非的畫面。
Cities and Flâneurs are closed correlated! In the series of "worry-free island", it does not mean that Flâneur is not in it although one cannot see the Flâneur. Oppositely, the vision of outsiders could reflect more the existing and Flâneur's visions.
This "simulated island", was composed by the well-known buildings, cities, living environments, social events, and sightsees in traveling represented a developed island country. However, people living on this island were incapable to change this city or this island. Like Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940, described, "..incapable to face and change this city...". As an artist, he conducted "painting" to rewrite, extend, further reconstruct this vision between reality and unreality.