I Know I Do Not Know

作品賞析

CHIEN Chen-Heng abides by the core spirit of landscape painting in a personal quest for the meaning of life. The painting I Know I Do Not Know is part of this series. Chien uses delicate colors and gentle shading on bamboo paper to create images resembling some kind of organic substance, like chunks of meat piled up into a pinkish heap, a metaphor for the natural state of life. In the painting, this heap of meat spirals out in all directions from the center of the image, like a blooming flower. Filled with life, it represents the writhing and breathing of living entities. Chen piles these fleshy forms into a mountain. This transformation of a once-static sense of space is more than just a personal quest for value and meaning in life; it’s an image of the cosmos, revealing the flow of life energy.