Tree
is a symbol of longevity. In his lifetime, he has experienced and
witnessed of many generations of life and death. So I use tree as my
background for the title “life and death”.
I
use an old tree with a deep tree skin texture, and a pair of old
hands extended from the branches, showing the old age of the tree.
I
also used the contrast and the complimentary color to express life
and death.
On
my artwork, I arranged the upper left to be the source of yellow and
white light, and the lower right use purple and black as dark shadow
area. The bright contrasting colors strongly expressed the life and
death through out the whole art.
All
vitality are placed on the upper left , and those belonging to death
are placed on the lower right of the picture. The contrast between a
living person and a skull, a contrast between a bouquet of fresh pink
roses and dead purple roses, butterflies in the day and moth at
night, these will strongly express the feeling of life and death.
In
fact, everyone needs to experience life and death. Here, I don't
intentionally express death too dark or too scary, but just arrange
and state death as our life experience.
