作者：多那‧巴格勒斯
國籍：紐西蘭
作品名稱：改變的護身符
材料：竹子、麻繩
Artist’s Name: Donald Buglass
Nationality: New Zealand
Title: Talisman of Change
Materials: bamboo, twine
創作理念：
改變的護身符就像它的名字一樣，創造概念是希望藉由幸運神力，來扭轉人類對自然破壞所造成的環境危機。
人類動搖了地球的自然系統，而改變的護身符就象徵著最初的力量，在某些方面象徵著自然界偉大的自我調節能力。它同時也反映著一種由人類與自然界和諧相處時歡樂大同的希望。
在毛利人(紐西蘭原住民)文化裡，3是神聖的數字，它代表著人處天與地之間，為了表達此概念，我的作品將被染成了3種不同顏色來寓意天、地、人。
雖然改變的護身符並非真正可以改變天氣的巨變，但是它帶出來的精神和理念，或許可以改善人類對自然的態度。
這個作品由竹子製作成號角的形狀，以天然纖維的材料綑綁在一起後，來呈現不同的顏色以象徵各個部份。從底部挖空成號角形，它們的角背向對方，漩渦狀的身體牽引到角尖，角尖指向天空，內部挖空的部分成扇形，一直伸延到中心。
Statement:
“Talisman of Change”, as the name suggests, is a charm, and its purpose is to reverse the downward spiral of environmental destruction and climate change.
Man has destabilized the Earth’s ecology and “Talisman of Change” is a symbol of the primal forces that must at some point begin again to rectify the present chaotic state, whether or not humanity is still here to witness it. “Talisman of Change” also reflects on a time when man was in harmony with nature and could communicate with it through shamen and oracles.
Three is significant as a traditionally spiritual number in Maori (Indigenous New Zealanders) culture representing the earth and sky with man in between. Reinforcing this, the bamboo is bound by three different colors of naturally dyed binding, also significant to Maori.
Although “Talisman of Change” may not actually change the catastrophic forces that are now in play I think, in this case, it’s the thought that counts.
This sculpture consists of three horn shaped cones constructed from lengths of bamboo. The bamboo in fastened together with natural fibre binding dyed in symbolic colors. The horns will lie on each other in a vortex shape (reminiscent of a tornado) with the tips pointing to the sky and the open ends fanning out from the centre.
