Description

It is a response to the mismatch and conflict between man made and natural environments. It depicts a fragile world where flood defences have been defeated by nature and flooding has reclaimed the urban and rural landscape. It represents our hopes and fears about the future of our urban spaces and the threat of natural disasters caused by climate change. The ambiguous landscape depicted describes somewhere that is neither water or land or urban or rural. The canvas surface has been manipulated with diluted oil paint stains that flow, bleed, run back, breakdown, erode, cover like water and flooding itself. Painted layers and drawn lines from sections of maps of Taipei and architectural plans for future ways of living within nature and managing flooding come together to create a metaphysical hallucination brought about by material illusion. A soft, bluish silvery haze' has been built up in layers of painted glazes causing sky, land and water to 'blend' and infuse producing a 'new world' that is 'neither land nor sea'.