Sam

This morning began with the Huatuo Members’ Assembly, and by afternoon I found myself at Mima Yang Gallery, attending Salvo’s workshop on mounting. I had expected nothing more than a lesson in technique, yet what unfolded was far beyond craft. With quiet patience, the Italian painter spoke of the subtle distance between art and painting, of ways of seeing that resist the weight of assumption. His words lingered: approach nothing with a fixed mind, but instead with openness, with the willingness to see light where one might expect shadow.

In his gentle critique, Salvo pointed out that my colors lean toward the heavy, the muted, the sorrowful. He urged me toward brightness, toward joy. I recognized myself in his words, for when my works are gathered together, they sing in tones of melancholy, bound by a mood that has become too familiar. Perhaps it is time to unlearn this gravity, to let new subjects and new colors breathe through the canvas, and to allow myself to paint toward light.

We are all, in our own ways, pursuing an unfinished dream, reaching toward a horizon we may never fully grasp. Yet within the solitude of creation lies a quiet joy—the kind that makes the pursuit itself its own reward.

今天上午參加了華拓會員大會，下午參加了米馬羊藝廊舉辦的Salvo裱貼課程。本以為上課的內容，應該就只是單純的裱貼技法。沒想到義大利畫家Salvo細心的解說以及闡述的對於藝術和繪畫的不同以及種種的觀念，讓我覺得真的別對任何一件事情，太先入為主的觀念。一切先往好處思考。而Salvo也告訴我我的顏色太沉悶應該要明亮、歡樂一些。我最近也有在思考這個問題，就是我所有的畫擺在一起，無論是內容或者是顏色，大多都是苦悶、悲情的。應該要重新畫一些比較不一樣的主題。好好檢討一下自己的用色。我發現每一個人都在追尋自己的理想。未完成的夢或者是任何一個可能。不過我們都在孤獨的創作中找到樂趣。