Untitled (series) 無題

On that particular morning, I happened to have several sheets of tracing paper on it. I held up these sheets of tracing paper and looked at the sun through them. At that instant, I felt a divine beauty, like the hazy feeling you get when the sun shines directly down on your closed eyelids. The tracing paper was of different thicknesses and so the permeability to light varied. As the sunlight passed through the different thicknesses of tracing paper, the shadows produced were by turns darker or lighter. The entire thing looked almost like the skin of an infant. So I filmed a series of works there under the sun, and this series of works had a pureness and directness to it. This aesthetic felt to me almost like it was God.

〈無題〉是2018年我的個展中的全新創作作品。這件作品描述「神臨在的感受」。藝術經驗中的無形共感與信仰中的抽象經驗是否有交集，是我這次創作和展覽所欲探究的核心。

這些抽象的曲線與形體是我以描圖紙做出的雕塑，在三四月的下午，於工作室窗戶旁拍攝。那時陽光色溫特別柔和，光線將紙張暈染出一層溫和與純淨的色澤，像是初生嬰兒的肌膚。這些抽象的畫面，帶出內心純然的感受。他們就像神性的居所–安靜、愉悅、直覺的與神秘的所在。

太陽是最早的信仰崇拜的對象，藉著光線與材質，我欲探究神性的本質。

Photo by Niu Jun Qiang, Poju Ho