WAI Pongyu 韋邦雨
An elephant's Reverie 大象夢語
2022
Ballpoint pen on paper 圓珠筆紙本
244 cm (height) x 144 cm (width)

In recent years, the many constraints imposed on us seem to have limited our imagination for the future. I would like to see that there are still many areas waiting for us to explore. This optimistic hope grew stronger when I had an encounter, a special moment in my usual mountain walk from my home.

It was a very quiet, sunny afternoon. I walked past a lone pine tree, rooted behind a barbed wire fence. As I was approaching a bamboo thicket across the road, I could see and hear clearly its many bamboo leaves fluttering and rustling. It seemed that the strength of the wind was just enough to move the bamboo leaves, but not any other leaves. And the rhythm of the wind brought a long continuous whisper out of the bamboo leaves. The sound inspired me because it reminded me of the vast space surrounding me, its possibilities, and an ideal of collective vitality.

The murmuring sound recalled how I use line drawing to travel between binary boundaries: ideal and reality, movement and pause, trace and discard. So I would like to think that by using this act of line movement, with the sensitivity of ballpoint pen ink and paper, I could reanimate a sense of ceaseless intimacy between my mind and that moment, my hand and my city.

近年來，許多加諸於我們身上的限制似乎抑制了我們對未來的想像。我仍然希望可以看到，還有許多領域等待我們去探索。這種樂觀的希望在一次我平常從家裡出發的山間散步中，變得更加強烈。

那是個非常安靜、陽光明媚的午後。我走過一棵孤獨的松樹，它的根扎在鐵絲網後方。當我接近路對面的竹林時，我可以清楚地看到並聽到許多竹葉在飄動和沙沙作響。風的力量似乎剛好能夠撼動竹葉，卻無法撼動其他樹葉。風的節奏帶來了竹葉間長長的連續低語聲。這聲音啟發了我，因為它讓我聯想到包圍著我的廣闊空間、その無限的可能性，以及一種集體生命力的理想。

這沙沙低語聲讓我回想起我如何用線條繪畫來穿梭於二元界限之間：理想與現實，動與靜，痕跡與捨棄。因此，我願意相信，通過這種線條運動的行為，藉助圓珠筆墨水與紙張的敏感性，我可以重新喚起大腦與那個瞬間、我的手與我的城市之間那種不斷流動的親密感。