LEONG HOI SA  

 春蕾

 

生命中的消逝，若能永恆，該有多好。春蕾因為她的稍縱即逝，甚美，恰如青春美好的容顏，易逝。為了寄念這份易逝的美好，我把春蕾稍縱即逝的形態凝固在石頭上。

 

我的造形緣起來自於生命中的觸動。生命的觸動來自於對於生命的發現與觀察，植物的種子、花苞、貝殼的內部所凝聚的力量，飽和至極，向外撐開的那種自然的形態，那麼的微妙，那些皺褶和縫隙，看似對稱卻有那麼一點點的不一樣的姿態，蘊含著豐富的生命能量，由內往外釋放出來的姿態，猶如一個等待孕育生命的母體，充滿着女性意象。

 

關於我的作品中女性意象的詮釋，擷取自花朵或貝類聚焦在等待綻放，微微張開的狀態，象徵正直青春年華的女性，對人生、愛情充滿想像和期待，卻又是安靜，內歛的情感，一種不過於彰顯，含羞地等待的狀態。

 

歷經千萬年的石頭，石面石紋裹浸透着時間的痕跡，彷彿記載着歲月的消逝，沉默卻是獨一無二的存在，正如這世界上每一個個體。石頭穿越時空來與我相遇，我以石頭寄念生命的消逝，以雕刻的方式表達一種自我觀照以及自身對於生命的言說。在我的石雕作品中，我以生活在空間裏，與人對等的尺度，表達自身對生命以及情感的投射，傳達出對於生命的觀照。

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Spring Bud

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if youth can thrive forever? The spring blossom is such beautiful fleeting beauty, just like the ephemeral beauty of youth. I have congealed the evanescent gesture of the spring blossom on a rock in honor of this fleeting beauty.

 

My forms come from stirrings in life. These stirrings originate from discoveries and observations of life. The power condensed inside plant seeds, flower buds and shellfishes is so saturated; the natural gesture of their outward thrust is so subtle; those folds and crevices appear symmetric and yet somewhat different. The sumptuous living energy embodied therein and the gesture of outward release are as rich with femininity as a mother waiting to deliver life.

 

The interpretation of the female image in my works is extracted from a flower bud or a shellfish waiting to spread. The slightly open state symbolizes women in their prime youth, full of imagination and expectation for life and love and yet quiet and reserved--shyly waiting in a constrained state.

 

The stone has existed over millions of years, its surface and texture infused with the vestige of time as if documenting its passing. And yet, it expresses its existence with nothing but silence, just like every individual in this world. The stone traverses through time and space to meet with me, and I honor the passing of life with stone, expressing my self-reflection and discourse on life through the vessel of sculpture.In my stone sculptures, I portray my own projection on life and emotions in a human scale and human living space to convey a perspective on life.