優選獎
國籍:印度
製作年代:2019
版種:木刻
尺寸:120 x 75 cm
創作自述:
倘若你相信生命誠如一片平原、是一條力量形成的公路,那就不要細讀我的作品了,因為人生並非如此。我們都生而為旅人,命中注定就要往未知的目的地踽踽前行。彷彿沒有終點似的千里長路,總有數不盡的急彎與驚險曲折。
我們會著迷於無盡草原與蓊鬱田野,還有那恬適、靜謐而祥和的鄉間風情,卻又從不曾慢下腳步。有時我們如此鄙視自己有如強迫症般的好動,但我們甘願就此停下嗎?而我們究竟會到達哪裡?無止 境地繞著自己凝塑出來的海市蜃樓,就像一隻鳶不斷地在腐肉上空盤旋繞轉。
追逐著鬼火的我們,往往因此而改變了自己。在遺失了純真的追尋後,從漸失人性走往食人惡魔的歷程上那條最常被跨越的路。
Merit Prize
Nationality:India
Year of Production:2019
Technique or Medium:Woodcut
Size:120 x 75 cm
Artist Statement:
Don't pore over my work if you believe that life is a plain and strength freeway. For it is not. We are all born travelers, damned to go on without knowing the destination. The course of the tiring miles of never-ending roads is full of sudden U-turnsand dangerous twists.
The country dotted with rich meadows and verdurous fields along with the quiet, still and harmonious appearing ducolic life casts a spell on us. But rarely do we slow down. Sometimes we despise our compulsive mobility. But do we ever stop? And where do we eventually reach? We keep circling over a self-made mirage like a kite which rounds atop the carrion.
Our chase down the will-o-the wispy Lane often makes us change our stripes. Having lost the angelic pursuits, the journey from a lesser human to a cannibalistic demon becomes the most traversed pathway.