I Love You Singing & Dancing

#00012     36″ X 50″      MMP     2000

The artist Dr. Chen made his painting by integrating some icons of Taiwanese aborigines with images from photos of aborigines Japanese anthropologists in 1930s to describe one aspect of self-satisfied everyday life of a tribal aborigines in Taiwan. The far-above horizon is the Central Mountain Range with Jade Mount as the pivotal top. The exuberant green valleys underneath are frequently covered by the mist and clouds. The aborigines live harmoniously with the nature, their huts are built of bamboo and thatch. They embrace their traditions. One is morning pray in ritual and expressive dancing and singing, to the Heaven and Earth with universal souls, under eye-sights of relatives in the tribe. They live deep inside the mountain, work and rest according to the Sun and the Moon, presenting a particular aspect of culture in Taiwan.