The modern generation receives too much negative emotions that require filtering. In my point of view, making art is a way to calm myself back to serenity and release myself from repressed negative sentiments. In art-making, 'catharsis' is defined as a process of purging repressed sentiments, and can be regarded as art therapy. I have found that self art therapy exists in most of my art-making processes. As etching is a time consuming craftsmanship that require meticulous technique, by carefully applying an artist’s touch and refining in-depth visual presentation, I believe the resulting either narrative or abstract image can express conceptual content, which may provide room for the audience to contemplate, and thus develop their own interpretations.
All in all, I think etching is sort of a solace, a space of contemplation. Continuity (2018) is a project that helps me to reach a serene state of mind through repetitive recognition, dissection and self-evaluation from time to time.
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現今我們接收得太多需要被過濾的消極情緒。在我看來，製作藝術是讓我們恢復寧靜並讓自己擺脫被壓抑的負面情緒的一種方式。在藝術製作中，「情感導洩」被定義為一種消除壓抑情緒的過程，可被視為藝術治療的一種。我發現自我藝術治療存在於我的大部分藝術製作過程中。由於蝕刻版畫是一門極度耗時的工藝，同時亦需要精密細膩的技巧，通過藝術家對蝕刻版畫仔細的控制和視覺上的深度處理，我相信由此所呈現的敘事或抽象圖像可以表達到概念性質的內容，這可以進一步為觀眾提供思考的空間，從而尋找出只屬於觀眾他們的一套詮釋。
總而言之，我認為蝕刻版畫就好像一種安慰，一個令我沉思的空間。持續性(2018)是通過不時重複識別，解剖和自我評估的一個項目，從而幫助我達到寧靜的心境。
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