Year: 2017
Medium: mixed media, paper, and glasses
Size: 15*67cm
This is a project based on the poem "To A Child Dancing in The Wind" by Yeats.
To A Child Dancing In The Wind --W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
I
DANCE there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water’s roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
DANCE there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water’s roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
Being young you have not known
The fool’s triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer dead
And all the sheaves to bind.
The fool’s triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer dead
And all the sheaves to bind.
What need have you to dread
The monstrous crying of wind?
The monstrous crying of wind?
II
Has no one said those daring
Has no one said those daring
Kind eyes should be more learn’d?
Or warned you how despairing
The moths are when they are burned,
I could have warned you, but you are young,
Or warned you how despairing
The moths are when they are burned,
I could have warned you, but you are young,
So we speak a different tongue.
O you will take whatever’s offered
And dream that all the world’s a friend,
And dream that all the world’s a friend,
Suffer as your mother suffered,
Be as broken in the end.
But I am old and you are young,
And I speak a barbarous tongue.
Be as broken in the end.
But I am old and you are young,
And I speak a barbarous tongue.
Chinese traditional painting is more focused on the shape of the object instead of the volume, so people's face always look flat. When the Chinese emperor of the Qing dynasty first saw the Western oil paintings, he was unhappy and said: "There shouldn't be shadows on children's faces." The face without shadow can be a metaphor for the children's innocence. We grow up with crying, and those tears became the shadow on our face.