Video: Bucket People: Juy-Ping Chang's Surreal Paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A native of Taiwan, Jui-Ping Chang, now living in London, found her style in painting. The characters of the 47-year-old artist's surreal paintings are frightened little men in a world full of chaos. They need buckets on their heads in order to hide faces distorted by fear. The ostrich hides its head in the sand - a man, a child of technological progress, hides it under a bucket. Jui-Ping Chang's surreal fantasies are works about fear and evil fearlessness, about the general pursuit of apples and dancing with clubs at the ready.
Jui-Pin Chang graduated from the University of Taipei where she studied traditional Chinese calligraphy and brush techniques and more. After that, she began giving painting lessons in her studio in Taiwan, and then moved to the United States, lived in Canada and now settled in the UK.
Jui-Ping Chang has two daughters, and as a mother she is concerned about their future. The artist is alarmed by the world in which her children will have to live. She does not like the political situation on the planet, she is worried about lawlessness and human rights violations. And all these manifestations of injustice irritate the artist - and trigger the creative mechanism.
If there are impersonal abstract man-clocks, why not faceless “bucketmen” be born?
A man with a bucket on his head does not see anything around and naively thinks that no one notices him either. However, why is it naive? If the buckets are put on all around the head, then each person really becomes invisible. Only by overcoming their existential fear of the world and getting rid of the "helmets" that blind their eyes, people will be able to see. But no one does this: it's more convenient for them, with buckets.
The surreal bucket man first came to Jui-Ping Chang in a dream. She dreamed that little people with buckets on their heads began to descend from heaven to earth. They surrounded the artist, began to sing and jump, swinging clubs. Jui-Ping Chang was seized by an irrational fear. What to do? How to be saved? In a panic, she grabbed the bucket and put it on her head too. And as soon as the "helmet" hid her face, the feeling of fear instantly disappeared. The fearless artist went in formation along with other bucket-men.
Waking up after a gorgeous surreal dream, Jui-Ping Chang realized that all these little people live in her soul. And she desperately wanted to draw them, but she still cannot stop.
Why are bucket people so attractive? They helped the artist to discover deeply hidden thoughts, needs and abilities. Drawing such little people, Jui-Ping Chang not only overcomes his own fears, but also (which is much more important and interesting for the artist) explores them. And in this she even learned a thing or two from her own characters. It takes a lot of courage to start digging into your fears, but where can you get it? You have to put a virtual bucket on your head!
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