創作前序（自1998）

以直刻单版画(dry point & mono print) 或干笔素描绘画（drawing & sketching）或亚克力绘画(acrylic painting) 或素描抓影裝置藝術（drawing installation)这几种一气呵成的混合媒介表现手法，一缕缕的线条，理直气壮：往往，线条勾画出一 些简单的造形，不仅容载著我盛满的欢心，更有说不出理由的冲动与喜悦，牵引我进入它内质空间；再激发我的想像能力，任其奔放，任其扩充更丰富的想像空间。

不需要太多修葺，不需要太多的技巧，看这些作品，是一种纯然的视觉艺术品之面对面交感。或许会感受是客观而实在的吧！

一丝丝落发，千情万种。有的是人体意象，有时出现蠕动的生物，像狗又像鼠，更说像是瓜果之类，看到甚么，就是甚麽。我想给你一个突兀的经验，来自‘构造的相似’(Affinity)。

我的绘画常表现两种东西存在的相互关连。喜欢在‘ 姿态抽象’与‘具象人性’中走钢索。形象介於抽象与实象之间，但都是可辨认或熟稔的，只是被抽离了相关 的背景与环境；不再试图复制物体原本存在的性质或真实性而是加於夸张或精简，来保有它最根本之辨认的特质。形象只赋予它大小、质料、摆置和色彩。

即兴式的画面操作，在直觉性与原创性上，有独特地多样性，和笔势表现的力量，自由而多样化，搭架出我与材料之间的心灵对照。

艺术不是再现看得见的东西，而使东西看得见。

时而把自己飘流于文化或文明的进程里，时而飘流在梦幻的岛屿和日常生活里。悠然於像蛇一般的曲蜷线条，造成一个图画的天真与怡然的世界。


张儒仪
旅線畫室
4/2008

artist statement since 1998

The perfect combination of “dry point & mono print”, “drawing &sketching”, “acrylic painting” and “drawing & installation” produces distinctive masses of linear drawings. Often, such simplicity contains my emotions of overwhelming happiness and impulsion. It even enables me to enter the inner realm of my imagination, freeing, enhancing and enriching my own imagination.

The simplicity of my work does not see the adoption of too much manipulation nor skills. Instead, my works exhibit perceptions of visual art, evoking feelings which are entirely individualistic and real.

Different forms convey different mood. In my range of works, there are figurative human forms, wriggling organism which appear thus and yet not. These appearances in affinity intend to create an impressionistic/sudden/instant experience.

My works display the intertwine of two existing forms, i.e. an attempt to achieve equilibrium between two instabilities. The forms that you see are deliberately detached from their relevant background and environment, yet they are easily recognized and distinguished. These forms exist between abstraction and naturalism as I do not wish to duplicate but preserve the essence, through exaggeration and simplification. Image adds its touch to the determination of size, texture, composition and colour.

Spontaneous application on the paper or canvas provides unique versatility in expressing my intuition and originality. That with the strength in my liberal and diversified strokes is a coordination to convey my spiritual interaction with the materials.

Art dost not depict things as seen but reveal things to be seen.

At times I find myself drifting amidst the progress of culture and development, at times, I am caught between the world of fantasy and daily routine. Yet I feel relaxed like that of a coiling snake’s curve linear/curvy lines, as I create the art of innocence and peace of mind.

Teoh Joo Ngee
April 2008
Walking Line Art Studio