The Portrait of Divinity 神像

I printed out an ordinary image of Jesus Christ he had found online, and left it in the sun for three months, causing a faded effect on the image except the right hand and left eye of Jesus Christ, which had been covered before the exposure to the sun. The print is then mounted in an old frame. The right hand and left eye maintain the same color before the sun exposure. The gesture of Jesus Christ is imbued with religious significance: the two fingers touching together refer to the divine and the human in Christ, while the other three fingers refer to the Trinity — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The work is exhibited in the display window on the first floor of the gallery, a place for viewers to most likely see the work either on their way in or out of the gallery. This position of the work resonates with the concept of divinity, and with the importance of light to human sight for its power to facilitate sight and obscure color.

我從網路搜尋到一般平常人家家中皆可能出現的耶穌像，數位輸出後曝曬於陽光下三個月，使色彩褪色，唯獨遮蔽了耶穌的右手與左眼，並以老框裝裱。被遮蔽的右手與左眼仍保持曝曬前的原色，我在此表現光抹去其本身（神）的樣貌，從人對神的形體的投射，討論視覺的侷限性。一方面呼應所謂的「神性」，也呼應「光」之於視覺的角色（因光線而看見事物，但也因光消去色彩）。