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Suspended Duality “ Cut one end of the rope the other end will fall”. While this statement serves as a warning to my audiences not to do what seems so tempting, it also connotes the principle concepts that drive me into creating this series of works. The materials that I use in this series of works are mass-produced merchandizes that I found in dump sites and cut-down tree stumps that I collected from highway constructions. The awkward hybridism displayed in each object is the reflection of the inevitably paradoxical relationship between human being and the nature.All these fourteen pieces of odd-looking objects are paired-up and respectively connected by a similarly odd-looking piece of rope. Each pair is displayed in a suspended mode wherein the fact is that whether or not they both can remain in the air depend on the existence of each other. The underlying connotations of coexistence, balance and reciprocation are realms that I attempt to explore. I sometimes wonder that where should I take stance, as an active practitioner of consumerism, when crossing interest with our mother nature. I see valuable objects considered useless and being abandoned in the dump sites nearby my home everyday. I see handsome trees being cut down just to make room for a wider highway to cope with our ever expanding traffic demand. I see beautiful harbor being ruined "for the citizen's own good". Haven't we another alternative other than seeing nature as our counterpart, and worst of all continuously exploiting her? Are we truly benefited by this dualistic mentality? Are these suspended objects dualistic or they are mingling to make a harmonious whole? Wing Wong 異懸 異懸其實是玩食字。 "異懸"音同"二元"意謂兩種相對之元素。而異、懸這兩個字又分別獨立地序述出這系列的七件作品的特質。每組作品均以一對相稱而又造型乖異的物件所組成。而每組均被一條造型同樣乖異的大纜連結在一起，並且將之平衡安穩地懸掛起來。每組作品之能夠安穩地繼續懸空呈現於閣下眼前，有賴它們之間的平衡及互助。唯有這平衡及互助，它們得以並存。在這系列的作品中，我試圖以材料的本質矛盾作為對主題的反射。材料主要以我於垃圾站中所搜集到的商業廢物，及於公路地盤所撿來的倒樹作為材料。這個諷刺的組合，多少反映著現代人心目中與大自然之間的二元關係。 盲目的消費主義，另我們差不多已經選定了以對抗及剝削作為與大自然的唯一關係。每天我看見很多曾經美倫美煥的物件被棄置於我家附近的垃圾站中。又看見一棵棵壯拙的大樹被砍下，只為抗闊經已絡大的公路。更看見漂亮的海港將要被填為平地，以供人們有更廣闊的空間可使用。我懷疑人類與自然之間就是否只有這二元對立的局面。言而，最終我們又是否真的能夠得益？ 究竟它們每一對皆在互相角力著，還是正在互惠並存？鑷夫 |