李朝倉／台灣
鳥居
樹枝、濕地土壤、麻繩
Lee, Chao-Chang／Taiwan
Flavor of Wetlands
Braches, soil of wetland, hemp rope
創作經歷
Chao-chang Lee is a 50-year old male artist with the appearance of a scholar due to his glasses. He occasionally does not speak for six months. Some days he wants to try smiling the whole day; the result is difficult, and he unconsciously becomes solemn or has a blank expression. He says that because he is always thinking of himself, does not care and does not focus, each time, doing art for him is a good opportunity for discovery, study and practice. Chao-chang says that art has helped him to find the impermanence of life, learn to lie down, and then to share with everyone through his works.
Chao-chang received a BA degree in design and a master of fine arts degree in painting at the University of Fine Arts and Music in Aichi, Japan. He has had many exhibitions of his work in Taiwan including in Taipei, Taichung and other cities. He has done site-specific sculpture installations at the Suho Memorial Paper Museum in Taipei and at Hua Shan Art Center in Taipei. Chao-chang was an artist in residence at the JuMing Museum in Taipei in 2005 and an artist in residence at Stock 20 in Taichung in 2001. In 2001 he was selected for an artist in residency in the USA with the ISCP program in New York City. In 2004 he was awarded a residency at the Mino Paper Art Village Project in Mino City, Japan. Chao-chang was born in Yunlin County, Taiwan. He has returned to live in his native village and now runs an artist in residency program there at an abandoned army camp.
創作理念
來到關渡自然公園，首先感到興奮與好奇的是，濕土的顏色味道與藏在裡面的吸引鳥類的秘密。所以這次主要是傳達味道與秘密。
一邊摸著揉著聞著濕土的感覺一定很棒，人們喜歡在屋子裡藏秘密，所以會有類似起土角厝的方式和附近的自然素材結合，來蓋一個屋子。遼闊的濕地是鳥類及相關生態生命的仙境，他們所有秘密都是公開的擺在眼前的，但人類看不到。雖然作品名稱是「鳥居」，但其實是「人居」，我們進到鳥類造型的空間裏，嘗試閉起眼睛會感受到什麼秘密？其實這也是我想藉這次的過程好好來學習的。
整件作品的製作其實並不複雜，不外乎骨架製作然後糊土，這全程都可以輕鬆參與，而且也真的需要協助(笑)。展示過程中會遇到颱風，他會幫助這作品的土回到濕地，而屬於陸地的骨架則繼續留著，成為和颱風合作後的作品。
Statement
Coming to Guandu Nature Park, I feel so excited and curious about the smells, the colors and the secret hidden in the wetlands to attract birds. So this is mainly the topic I want to convey in my work, the flavor and the secret of the wetlands.
People like to keep a secret inside a house, so the wet soil will be combined with the natural material to build a sort of house with the adobe technique. The vast wetlands are full of birds and related to the ecological wonderland of life; all their secrets are open to us, but human beings cannot see. Although the work is called "The Liau-gi” (a place where birds live), it is actually a "Human Habitat." When we go into the structure with eyes closed we can imagine ourselves as birds. In fact, this is what I would like to study seriously with this process of making my work.
To create my sculpture at Guandu Nature Park I plan to use all natural materials found at the location. I feel it is a great thing to use local materials, and we always need to spend time in nature to feel and to learn. The whole production of my work is not complicated; first I will produce a skeleton of bamboo or branches, and then use the soil like paste to construct the shape. Other people can easily participate in the entire process, with some assistance of course. When the typhoon comes during the display of works, it will aid in taking the soil back to the wetlands, and the skeleton that belongs to the land will continue to stand.
