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序文附於後。Preface attached.
「浮生若夢，夢裡逍遙。」"Living in daydreams."
小時候看過一篇童話故事，大意是說：有位老婦人和兒子住在貧苦的小村莊裡；老婦人是織錦能手，兒子則是農夫。有天晚上，老婦人夢見仙女告訴她，如果她能把自己想像中的完美世界織成錦緞，就會有好事發生。老婦人用盡全心全力，以絲線織出世界上最美的風景。當最後一根線剪斷完成時，織錦開始不斷擴大、延伸，最後成為真實的風景，他們從此幸福生活於其中。
努力編織夢想、最終成真的美好故事，教育小朋友人生充滿希望。或許是看太多這種故事，被嚴重洗腦，長大之後的我成為人們眼中的理想主義者，也就是「做白日夢」、「不食人間煙火」的代名詞。
其實我是個很實際的人，從不期待奇蹟、不編織不可能實現的夢想；只不過，要我下斷語說「不可能」比較困難一點。如果所描繪的藍圖確實有價值，就算實現的可能性極其微小，也值得去嘗試；因為即便將來無法百分之百按照藍圖完成，仍然會比開始時的狀態好的多，這就是進步。我們都生活在先賢先烈的夢想裡──多虧那些努力追夢的前人，雖然這個世界離完美很遙遠，也沒有完全符合哪位聖哲的理想，但至少比過去少些黑暗。如果我們現在沒有任何夢想，那麼在未來等著的，將是一片黑暗。
我的夢想很簡單：逍遙自在地生活於美麗的環境中，如此而已。所謂環境，包括自然與人文。迄今我所做的，基本上也就是盡一己之力，想辦法讓美麗的環境不要毀於一旦。我認為藝術可以改變人心，而人心的力量最為強大，因此我用藝術創作傳達理念，希望能夠多發揮一點力量。
這本冊子收錄2008年至2011上半年的代表作品，其中【老北京四季】的數位繪圖乃是從原本的系列油畫改製而成。將原畫影像進行簡化、重新配色，繪成25～30色的數位圖畫，以便進一步應用於衍生品製作，例如紡織品或版畫，是我的新嘗試。在夢裡，什麼都有可能發生；我的創作，也不自限媒材形式。
陳敏澤 2011.10 於台北
Preface
“Once upon a time, there was an old lady living in a small, poor village with her son. The old lady was a very skillful weaver and her son was a farmer. One night she dreamed of a goddess, telling her if she could make a piece of brocade of the perfect world in her mind, something good would happen. The old lady put all her heart and imagination into it and created the most beautiful landscape in silk. When she finished, the brocade started to extend, becoming bigger and bigger… finally the image on the fabric turned into real landscape, and they lived happily ever after.”
Above was a Chinese fairy tale I read when I was a kid, story of a dream-weaver, literally. Maybe the impression of the story was too deep and got me brainwashed, I grew up to be a so-called idealist, i.e. daydreamer.
Actually I am a very practical person; never expect miracles, never dream for the impossible. Just it’s a little bit hard for me to say “impossible”. In my notion, if a blueprint/picture projecting something truly valuable, it would be worth trying regardless how small the probability of success is. Because, even though the original plan might not be fully carried out, the result would still be better than what we started with, and that is progress. We are all living in the dreams of saints and martyrs – thanks to those forerunners, although this world is far from perfect, at least it is less dark than the past. If we don’t have any dreams now, there would only be darkness waiting in the future.
My dream is very simple – having an unfettered life in a beautiful environment. The environment includes both nature and culture. So far all I have done, is trying my best to prevent beautiful environment from ruined. I believe that art can change human mind, and the state of mind is the most powerful thing, so I create art to express my idea, and hopefully to make the work more effective.
This pamphlet includes my representative works dated from 2008 to the first half of 2011. Among them the digital drawings of “Old Beijing Four Seasons” are derived from the original oil painting series. It is my new approach to simplify and remake painting images into 25 to 30-color digital drawings for derivative products, such as textiles or prints. Like anything can happen in the dreams, there is no limitation on the media of my art creation.
Min-Tse Chen in Taipei, October 2011
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