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Kay H. Lin :: artist statement        

 


Reading a painting just like a poem.
I create a picture with a poem’s feeling.
I paint a picture just like composing a poem.
With only few words, it flows.

 

 

Through Logic  (1992 – 1994)

Through Distance (1995 – 1997)

 

The logic of the painting creates my space and distance.  Through the distance, think much more and live more simply.

 

Mountain (1998)

 

In the air, high and low, look up and facing down, and when the mountain, water, sky all meet the end,

that remains . . .

 

Exchange (1999)

 

The relationship between two things: crossing, contrasting or against, but depending on each other and finding a balance.

 

Starry Night (2000)

 

Look at the time passing by in the universe.  Thinking of Van Gogh’s struggle and sadness. And the feeling of being an immigrant far away from home . . .

 

Like Flower Like Butterfly (2001)

 

    Flower is not a flower

    Mist is not the mist

    Come in the middle of night

    Leave in the early morning dawn

 

    When comes,

    Just like a spring wind – comes not often

 

    When gone,

    Just like early morning clouds – hard to find

 

Through Horizon, Sing Forever (2002 – 2003)

 

I drag myself inside Baroque music.  Hide myself, dancing, screaming, with the high and strong tone of the music that could suddenly break down.  I am buried myself into the jumping notes.  And finally, I see the beauty and find a peaceful, quiet color that I can paint on, with fresh calm air that I can breathe deeply.

Through the horizon’s edge, for my creation; it is just a piece of feeling . . .

Path Through (2004 – 2005)

 

I follow the path. I see the line of life.

A line that divides and also connects. 

Through life, I am deconstructing myself here and in between.

In Between (2006)

 

There is a flower that blooms during the day and dies in the night.

 

There is a mountain over there after a hundred years and still.

 

There is the light, the space that creates my abstract painting

with the moment that I am blossoming like a flower, but I am ready

to die, or maybe I will be here like a mountain, forever and still.

 

To Believe (2007)

 

In the day, seeing hundreds sparkling motes through a ray of light.

Just like seeing hundreds twinkling stars in the night and even closer.

 

Unlike the stars that live far up in the sky,

they are in the air although I could not hold them tight.

 

But the beauty of their shining still creates my painting with

the moment of imagining dreams and making wishes down here.  To Believe.

 

Live Music Drawing (2008)

 

     Seven notes that create the music

 

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

 

     Seven colors that create the light

 

Let the rainbow be my color; let the music be my stroke

 

Carry that voice through the sunlight into the sky; until the rest of heaven

 

     Life, Live and Survive

 

Endless 無言盡 (2009)

 

Engaging in too much to drop

for our life, live and survive

with endless word.

 

endless 無言盡 No. 1

 

游子紅塵尋徘徊,

無於四季浪不歸,

言莫情盡心未了,

盡度藝文書懷言.

 

endless 霧非霧 No. 4

 

無境仙人遊, 道人古來稀,

言如春風迎, 語覆寒空鳴,

盡夕朝雲露, 滋茲絮先賢,

花落附青枝, 只怕學境遷.

 

endless 花非花 No. 5

 

春風春雨溪潺流,

杜鵑花語霽情衷,

一元復始方年盡,

牡丹猶待予新綢.

 

花非花無宿思念,

故遙歸期歲漫延,

露溼宇前藝文路,

三月梨花雪紛飛.

 

endless 無言盡 No. 6

 

蜜碼情蝶夢中藏,

夜半追逐水中央,

雲無夜沈遊浩瀚,

天空之城點星光.

 

endless 松 No. 7

 

松箴松語立寒冬,

凌洬不惧歲如同,

百年明月松間照,

千迴鷺返又東風.

 

endless 梅 No. 8

 

冬隱春露青草青,

翆盈濟雨甦懷明,

何落綠葉孤枝屹,

襯縱四月紅梅情.

 

Lost Horizon 桃花源 (2009)

 

Lost Horizon 桃花源 No. 1

 

物境心移月如前,

冬隱春來意凝悉,

百川林去尋芳葉,

子戀東枎一菰枝.

 

漫平清風旋越盡,

夢迎追嶼邊際雲,

泱泱去無分覓處,

猶記桃源花紛時.

 

Lost Horizon 桃花源 No. 2

 

歲如穿水了無痕,

秋分難飾重洋心,

經緯原織同宇夢,

何恃言語兩相情.

 

Lost Horizon 桃花源 No. 3

 

遠山近石水茫荻,

風中雲裡映如詩,

日遙碧心同明月,

浮萍順轉舟來時.

 

Lost Horizon 桃花源 No. 4-7

 

春風迎, 夏日情, 秋葉懷, 冬雪心.


Spring breeze, Summer love, Fall leaf thoughts, Snowing mind.
Spring alive, Summer grow, Autumn gain, Winter hide.

 

Idyll 詩情畫意 (2010)

 

Idyll 詩情畫意 No. 5

 

春枝初露,

北轉星移,

留風傳音,

雨色無顏.

 

Idyll 詩情畫意 No. 6

 

銀崎銀雪情,

花言花草青,

水同原無處,

岸旁踱步詩.

 

Idyll 詩情畫意 No. 7

 

高山殘雪水潺流,

何慕西風木陽春,

幽悠棧道綿無盡,

夢懷去年半山岩.

 

Idyll 詩情畫意 No. 8

 

一畝山丘兩伴湜,

千水並蝕一延瀑,

萬花點綠兒時趣,

猶見游魚躍青石.

 

Idyll 詩情畫意 No. 9

 

銀河迂水接雲山,

黑雨傳說留故庄,

擺渡歸夜方圓覓,

西下餘暉染虹坊.

 

Idyll 詩情畫意 No. 10

 

朝暮日月時,

何處孤鳥翼,

白葉情縱飛,

巒山紅花雪.