蔣友柏 個展 – 天堂的眼淚 Tears in Heaven
2023/09/16 (六) – 2023/12/15 (五)
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時刻的思念與想望 策展人 王玉齡
因為時間的流逝，才有我們對所愛的人的思念與想望。
曾經獲得18座葛萊美獎的英國詞曲作家兼藍調吉他歌手艾力·克萊普頓(Eric Clapton)創作一首動人的歌曲《天堂的眼淚》(Tears In Heaven)，吟詠對離世兒子深深的悼念。
蔣友柏這次展出的最新創作系列，以《天堂的眼淚》為主題，在相仿的情懷中，由羈絆出發，在時序遞嬗的世間裡，探索生命存在的意義，尤其是為了想讓已過世的父親看看離別至今，他對自我追尋的沉澱與累積。此次以二十四幅作品構成的主題，每幅代表一小時，每小時有自己的構圖與詩篇，畫面是心境的鏡射，詩篇串起的是散文，也是蔣友柏想對父親與一雙兒女說的話。
子時，跨越日夜，心境彷彿更容易在深淵中互望，是蔣友柏《天堂的眼淚》的起始。畫中，醒獅目睹晝夜橫跨，黑白反差劇烈鮮明，思念之痕如同枝葉般蔓生。對藝術家而言，醒獅身上的色彩是夜間的彩虹，得以披著繽紛去接續人生。緊挨的時辰，出現龍、獨角獸、熊貓、鳳凰、甚至是帶有翅膀的豹等，在流動、沾印、揮灑、勾勒的筆法中張開。
在生命的不同時序裡，濃烈的午時或是傍晚時分，有狂亂滴淋的線條，有堅定的眼神，有迷霧中的花園，表達藝術家面對生命流轉的無畏無懼，並且訴說陪伴的意義。藉由漸變的色彩與畫面情感的呈現，觀者不僅可見24時辰的流動，而且透過藝術家變化萬千的筆觸與構圖，將一天當中自幽暗、初醒、敞亮、炙熱、黃昏至星光，對映於內心絮語、呵護責任、奠基開拓乃至清明頓悟。
蔣友柏以日復一日的24時，連結人世間一再重複的無限思念，同時，提醒我們在終究會變的風景裡，不如以動物為師，將人生化繁為簡，唯有簡單的愛，值得裱框紀念。
Tears in Heaven 文 / 蔣友柏
We never really existed.
We are born to find out whether we should exist.
Some end up as a whole, some end up as parts.
But we strive in the journey for that’s all we are.
Because the landscape will always change.
As long as we know that, we can always find a place in and after the change.
Just as the snow will melt and wash away the dirt, surfacing our true color.
Behind every fog there is a garden. All one has to do is simply wait for it to show.
For sometimes when you stand too high you will miss the clouds below.
I walk down this narrow path so you can have a closer look at me, so that you know black is not my only color. So that you can trust me to whisper your sorrows to me,
and I will wash it away with this light drizzle.
Whisper your happiness to me, I will cherish them with my love.
And every Sunday, we restart for another week of something.
For we all know the only thing that will last forever is the stories that we wrote for ourselves.
I will follow you through different colors of life.
I will shadow you through different shades of life.
It is in between the past and future that I found myself as a present to me.
After I found myself, you will never be cold for I will always give you all my warmth.
I know now that the power does not come from facing the strong.
But rather balancing the storm.
It is only then, even under the heat, we can still rest in peace.
It does not matter what the world has planned for us.
For it is always ourselves that will decide what we will make out of the world.
Accepting there will never be certainty.
Looking at my wishes fly through the valley into the cloud in front of the sky.
Wondering when they will come back to me.
But don’t worry whether they come back.
I leap out of the fire to show you that we can always be ourselves and there is nothing to be fearful about. And I will delay the nightfall so you can enjoy dusk a little bit longer. We cannot stop time but we can decide what time we want to pause and at what speed we want it to pass.
For nothing is ever perfect in life. That’s the trick life plays on us.
So we have a reason to continue searching for something that’s interesting in this normal life. This imperfection perhaps is the best gift life gave us.
We just need to accept it and embrace it.
Just as I came out of the jungle. Resting on this bank across from your home. Decorating myself with flowers. Coloring myself with the morning mist.
So when you see me, I will be in my best condition.
A condition to hold your hands into the future.
When I look past my past, I will see my future.
A future that belongs to us. Somewhere in this world, there is spring.
Maybe it’s far from here, but it still exists.
All we need to do is to just know it’s there.
Just like when you look up,
you can see my glance, shiny as the stars, eternal as the sky.
