Golden and Silver Mountain-Reverie No.5

作品賞析

When the artist Kao Chen-Hsueh was an artist-in-residence in Kinmen County, she got to know the blue-tailed bee-eater, a bird that migrates to Kinmen to breed during the summer. Her Golden and Silver Mountain – Reverie No. 5 uses neat triangles to represent the mountains. The plant images inside the triangles show the vitality of the mountains and their forests, and symbolizes the power that nature gives us to boldly move forward. Inside the spherical shapes are depictions of the flower of Kinmen’s special product, moghania root, a medicinal plant. The brown horizontal lines in the bottom layer of the image symbolize the flow of time. Blue-tailed bee-eaters are also called “summer sprites” in Kinmen. The painting six of them—their bright feathers and various postures—symbolizing all of people, things, creatures, and other good things that the artist encountered during her residency in Kinmen.