Landscape of Words-Heart Sutra

作品賞析

TSENG Mei-Chen uses wood engraving printing to create a series of carved landscapes. The artwork Landscape of Words –Heart Sutra shows similar landscapes of steep rock surfaces. Patches of black and white are used to create different light and shadow effects. This artwork is especially meaningful to TSENG Mei-Chen as she lost a family member during the art creation process, and broke her conventions by adding a line of Buddhist mantra that serves as a testament to her changing mindset and metamorphosis as well as a record of her personal thoughts. The artist combined the conceptual forms of Chinese pictographs and stripped the outlines of the landscape to its unadulterated forms to represent the forces and artworks of nature as well as the mysteries behind Chinese calligraphy. TSENG Mei-Chen molds natural forms and words as well as eastern and western philosophies to create a relationship between external elements and personal self and between virtual and realistic elements.