Turning Places-Bed

作品賞析

Artist Lee Yi- Ya’s works are mostly based on indoor spaces, but this work, Turning Places—Bed, shows a large outdoor scene. The sun had dyed the earth red and the city was bathed in a magical moment, but because of the pandemic, everyone stayed indoors, their sense of time long dulled. It was difficult to tell whether the scenery was sunrise or sunset. The straw hat placed on the bed shows the mood of looking forward to travel. In the lower left corner of the picture, a toy wooden rocking horse, longing for freedom, has broken free from the constraints of its wooden frame and is about to jump out of the frame. The air is filled with the desire to escape, but the shadow of the window grille on the ground symbolizes that this is all a cage. It suggests that this is a “space from which there is no escape.” In the upper right, the leaves with traces of having been spliced together seem to be the borderline connecting indoors and outdoors. The blurred boundaries between indoors and outdoors in the entire picture suggest that the reality of life under the epidemic is inherently inescapable.