Together with Them Series - 6

作品賞析

Decaying matter is a favorite subject of artist HSU Jui-Fu’s work, in which he attempts to elevate unsightly things to a profound and poetic spiritual level. In Together with Them Series – 6, HSU Jui-Fu describes a luxuriant scene of dense vegetation using finely detailed sketching techniques. But festering microorganisms growing in a dark patch are changing the face of this mystical, flourishing jungle. In this piece, Hsu sketches the appearances of numerous plant species he’s observed. But then he adds his unique thoughts and ideas about microbes, causing the items in the scene to decay in an unsightly way, transforming the image into a poetic abstract picture, embodying his mystical connection to the species at a spiritual level.