Travelling Series II

作品賞析

Artist LI Yu-Chen draws upon her memories and travel experiences as sources of inspiration for her woodcuts. She believes that memory is an accumulation and continuation of time, and when processed by the brain, scenes from our memories lose their realness. Just as the process of creating a woodcut print involves the stacking of colors, images in our memories are likewise repeatedly revised within our brains. In Travelling Series II, a hill stands serenely in the inky-black night under a starry night sky. Along its side winds a narrow mountain trail, like a white snake painted into the nighttime scene. It’s a world she created by reimagining her memories. The artist reproduces many images she has never seen in person by simulating personal experience. To her, memories produced by the brain are unreal, as if we’re wandering around at some uncertain place in the greater environment.