Eye Plan

作品賞析

Eye Plan was inspired by the artist Chen Yi-Ju’s personal experience as a child of being diagnosed with strabismus (“crossed eyes”). The two circular canvases and three vertical long canvases form a facial image of eyes and nose. Strabismus has seriously affected her visual experience and interpersonal relationships, so with her art she expresses the mood that she had as a child, “desperately wishing that my pupils to be like those of ordinary people.” She improvises with Sharpie pens and the “quick-drying” property of acrylic paint, drawing at random and superimposing images. The two eyes in the work are composed of a rich variety of shapes—squares, circles, triangles, moons, flying saucers, etc. When exhibited, a circular beam of light is directed between the circular canvases, thus completing the entire work. Besides viewing the rich variety of detailed images within the circles, you can also sense the relationship between the rays of light and the visual experience provided through the lamp.