In this "Follow Our Art" exhibition, the four largest oil paintings are the portfolio completed in the course in DesignFirst. I tried to use these four paintings to express my view on the learning processes in life. In order to group the four pieces together, I used four different colours - red, yellow, blue, green - as the main color of each of the piece.
雞鳴 Crowing
油畫 Oil on Canvas
90 x 90 cm
雞鳴，有醒悟的意思。每天早上，即使有多不願意，但總要起來工作。每逢做錯事情，都必須要先醒悟，後改過。可見「醒悟」是學習過程中的第一步。這幅畫裏的大公雞喚醒了你嗎？
Crowing has the meaning of "Awakening". I think it is the first important thing in the process of learning. We need to awake and get up for work every morning even though we really don't want to. Whenever we did something wrong, we need to "awake" before we correct the mistakes. Have you "awakened" by the cock in this painting?
進化 Evolution
油畫 Oil on Canvas
90 x 90 cm
生物學家說人類現在的樣子是從人猿演化出來，與黑猩猩有共同祖先。人類透過不斷學習、進步，從人猿「進化」成充滿智慧的人類，這幅畫想帶出的訊息就是學習的重要。
Biologists said human beings are evolved from apes and we share the common ancestor with chimpanzees. Through continuous learning and improvements, humans have evolved to become the supreme creature on earth. The message from this painting is the importance of learning.
競賽 Competition
油畫 Oil on Canvas
90 x 90 cm
人生中總會遇到不同競爭，總會被比較。畫中雀鳥與人類製造的飛機鬥飛得高，雖然雀鳥暫時飛得較高，但隨著人類不斷改良技術，現代的飛機已比雀鳥飛得高、飛得快。「競賽」其實是學習的一種過程。
We always face different kinds of competitions and comparisons in life. In this painting, a bird and a man-made old aeroplane are having a flight competition. Although the bird flys higher than the old aeroplane in the picture, after technology improvements, the modern aeroplanes can fly much higher than the birds nowadays. "Competition" is actually one of the process in learning.
蝴蝶效應 Butterfly Effect
油畫 Oil on Canvas
90 x 90 cm
在混沌理論中，「蝴蝶效應」是說在一個系統中，起初的微小變化能帶動整個系統的長期巨大的連鎖反應。所以不要看輕一個微小的改變，你的一個小發明、小創作，可能已經改變了這個世界。相信人生中不斷學習，都是希望可以為世界帶來一些貢獻吧！
In Chaos Theory, the Butterfly Effect is the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a system can result in large differences in a later state. Therefore, we should not look down to a small change. Your little inventions or little creations can change the world, which I think is one of the motives that we keep learning in the whole life.
