延 Continuance 2017-1         ------------------------------------------------------------------------

『什麼才是你、我延續的動力？』常常面對生活感受到人生有許多問題，不斷有破碎毀壞，借由這次展覽想要 跟觀者一起提問，什麼人、事、物是可以延續 ... 可以永恆不改變生活繼續動力的能量又是從何而來？『你我的內心深處呼求是否被聽見？』每一件作品是我的呼求，作品中肌理中的變化象徵著內心呼求的情境轉折，『耶穌樂意垂聽你我呼求，上帝是我每一天生命延續的動力！』其實生命亮起許多紅燈的我，最後發現上帝垂聽人 內心的呼求，成為我生命延續的動力因為耶穌來到世上垂聽我軟弱的呼求聲音，耶穌是一切生命源頭，他來是 要我們得生命且得得更豐盛，願這被拯救回來的生命得以可以「延」及更多人，成為別人的祝福。其中「一道江河」這件作品背景詩歌成為我最後想與觀者分享：主的愛像一道江河寶座能力流到萬民，祂是光，照耀我的生命「人若喝我所賜的水就永遠不渴。我所賜的水要在他裏頭成為泉源直湧到永生」出自聖經約翰福音 4:14。 人若渴了，可以到我這裏來喝，信我的人就如經上所說「從他腹中要流出活水的江河來。」約翰福音 7:37~38。

"What exactly is the motivation for you and me to continue?" Often in dealing with life, we come to feel that there are a great many problems in life; there are constant breakages and destruction. I want to use this exhibition to join the viewer in putting forward the question, what kind of person, matter, or thing can be continued...and where does the energy that is able to eternally continue without changing life come from? In "Have the Cries from Deep in Our Hearts Been Heard?" Every piece of work is my cry for help, and the changes in the textures of these works symbolize the circumstantial turning points of these inner cries. "Jesus is willing to hear our cries for help, God is the driving force of my life every single day!" In fact, there had been many red lights in my life lighting up to alert me before I finally discovered that God listens to people's inner calls for help and this became the driving force for my life's continuance, because Jesus came into this world and listened to the barely audible sound of my cries for help. Jesus is the source of all life. He came because he wanted us to have life and have it with more abundance, to allow this saved life to be 'extended' to more people and become a blessing to others. In this, the background poem of the work A River became the final thing I wanted to share with viewers: that the Lord's love is like a river whose majestic power flows to all people. He is a light that lights up my life. "Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life" , comes from the Bible, John 4:14. Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scriptures have said, "rivers of living water will flow from within them.” John, 7:37-38 .

走進一個呼求之地 Into a place of crying 2017-2        ----------------------------------------

約拿在魚腹中禱告耶和華祂的神，說：「我在患難中求告耶和華，他就應允我；我從陰間的深處呼求，祢就俯聽我的聲音。祢將我投下深淵，直到海心；大水環繞我，祢的波浪洪濤漫過我身。」約拿書 2:2-3。 引用聖經中的聖徒約拿故事，成為敘事性文本，聖徒約拿逃避上帝的面沒有順服上帝旨意行，而被上帝丟下魚的肚腹裡，在裡面三天三夜向神呼求發出的禱告，也隱喻在生活中有一些較內在生命的抽象呈現，畫面構圖表現一種漆黑的，凌亂的，憂悶的空氣，抽象的形狀一大片的黑，宛如在地獄中，材料是廚房料理紙，加上紗布，在創作形式上不是整齊的拼貼方式，而是凌亂不規則的曲線，布以粗麻為基底材再由油料中大量的摻雜木屑沙石「麻」在聖經中也有寓表性，象徵苦難中的呼求與禱告，在這段期間面臨周遭親人和朋友得癌症的侵襲，心境上同感約拿在黑暗魚肚腹中向神呼求憐憫的過程。

Jonah prayed to his lord Jehovah in the belly of a fish, and said: "In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry. You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me." Jonah 2:2-3. Quoting the story of the devotee Jonah in the Bible became a narrative text. Jonah escaped from God's attention and did not obey God's will, and so was thrown into the belly of a fish by God. Inside, he cried out to God in prayer for three days and three nights. This is also a metaphor to point out that there are some abstract presentations in life that are relatively inward and immanent. The picture's composition depicts a dark, disorderly, melancholy air, an abstract shape of a large area of black, as if in hell. The materials used were kitchen cooking foil, plus gauze. In terms of form, the creative work is not a neat collage, but a disorderly and irregular curve. The cloth is made of hemp as its base material, upon which a large amount of mixed wood chips, gravel, and 'hemp' were put in the oils, which are also indicative in the Bible, symbolizing cries for help and prayer in times of suffering. During this period of time, I was faced with the onslaught of a relative and a friend having cancer, and so felt in my heart this process Jonah had gone through, crying out to God for mercy while in the belly of a dark fish .

與以斯帖對話時空 Dialogue with Esther 2017-3         ---------------------------------------

這是舊約聖經文本，一位猶太人末底改求皇后以斯帖幫忙拯救她的本族故事，以斯帖必須冒著生命危險到王的面前， 帶著必死的決心完成這拯救的過程聖經裡記載：「末底改知道所做的這一切事，就撕裂衣服，穿麻衣，蒙灰塵在城中行走痛哭哀號，到了朝門前停住腳步因為穿麻衣的不可進朝門，王的諭旨所到的各省各處，猶大人大大悲哀，禁食哭泣哀號，穿麻衣。王后以斯帖的宮女和太監來把這事告訴以斯帖她甚是憂愁。《以斯帖記 4:1-4》就撕裂衣服穿麻衣蒙灰塵在城中行走痛哭哀號」這段話作為創作者的材質運作上採用麻為主要材質撕裂為創作技法與內在心靈的哀 痛，作品上拼貼文字一直反覆「焉知妳得了王后的位份不是為現今的機會嗎？」「王若以為美」「要死就死吧！」對 於拯救本族生命都落在她身上，在材料上特別用粗糙、燒燬、傷口、破碎的方式進行與以斯帖的困難處境作對話。

This is a text from the Old Testament. The story tells of a Jew named Mordecai begging Queen Esther to help save her people. Esther must risk her life by going before the king and completing the process of saving the Jewish people with a do-or- die determination. It is recorded in the Bible that: "When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry. He went as far as the front of the king's gate, for no one may enter the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. And in every province where the king's command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. So, Esther's maids and eunuchs came and told her, and the queen was deeply distressed. "Esther 4:1-4" he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry. "This piece of narration served as the creator's materials, and in operational terms hemp was used as the main material, while tearing was a creative technique used with a deep inner anguish. The collage text on the work repeats,“I know you didn't attain the position of queen for of the present opportunity?”“If the king finds you beautiful”“If you want to die, you will die!”It all falls on her to save the life of her people. In terms of materials, I specially used rough, burned, ripped, and broken materials to have communicate dialog with the difficult circumstances of Esther's dialog