Dreamscape in the Garden

作品賞析

Yu Ya-Lan’s Dreamscape in the Garden was inspired by a dream the artist once had. The scene resembles Monet’s garden in France, with vibrant plants arranged in an orderly pattern. A figure can be vaguely seen on a small bridge across a water lily pond. Yu Ya-Lan created the work using a printmaking tool called a baren. She uses layer upon layer of hand-stamping to create a grainy texture, its uneven texture revealing the intertwined traces of dreams and memories. Yu Ya-Lan has long explored the possibilities of color expression, gradually accumulating a unique color aesthetic, influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e, which has become a kind of latent visual memory for her. In this work, the azure water, the lush green trees, and the pink-purple gradation of the sky shroud the entire picture in a gentle, dreamy atmosphere, full of poetic expressive power.