by Lam Keyee 林可頤 E-mail: keyeelam@gmail.com

Dec 24, 2008

Repatination For My First Solo



This year I've been practising patination. I like using hot patination for the color shows faster and stays better. I was having much fun with it. I re-patinated The Skin series, Riding On Desire, The Swing Under the Sun. I may repatinate She is Waiting very soon.

I think by giving different colors and even patterns to bronze makes them look more interesting and contemporary. I will experiment with more.






I shall upload more new patinated works sooner.

All these works plus more will be shown at my solo exhibition, "七年滋養 - 雕塑是怎樣玩出來的" , to be held from Jan 8 to 15 Feb, 2009 at Neuberg ArtSpace, JCCAC. Some of the interesting part of making sculptures will also be exhibited in the show.



The honor guest, my teacher Chu Tat Shing celebrated with champion.

Eddie Liu, CEO of JCCAC.


The happy team

Sep 24, 2008

Whisper of Youth 青春的唇語




Ever since I was a kid, I had the weird habit of focusing on people's lips when they talked. Maybe it was because I unconsciously avoid looking them in their eyes for I felt tense and embarrassed as if I would share unwanted intimacy by having direct eye contact. The lips, on the other hand, are a more soothing substitute. The many small muscles give away the owner's secret emotion, but not demanding for mine.

As a result, I became very familiar to all shapes of lips and was fascinated by even the smallest, unnoticed lip movement. Lips could be so sensual and seductive without even uttering a word. And the lips whispering the desire for love are the most attractive.




Whisper of Youth is 50cmx50cmx50cm, larger than most of my other works. I had it in both fiber glass and bronze.

Feb 13, 2008

皮囊系列 The Skin Series


I agree with the famed Chinese painter 吳冠中's saying that art comes from illusions (or illusion is one of the main source). Sometimes when our senses are a bit lazy, a little blurred, not working so brightly and clearly, our minds tend to complete the picture by suggesting something from a source hiding deep within. It creates an illusion, which in many cases can be transformed into an art piece. We sometimes call that inspirations. (That reminds me of how in Buddhism we are encouraged to cease our five senses in order to reach higher state of mind)



The new series definitely comes from illusion. One day when I was working on my other piece, I sat back to look from a distance. My eyes were blurred, my body was tired,I stretchecd my arms and turned my head and there I saw, in another chair at the side, was my leather bag sitting there like a thick piece of skin. I was astonished and caught by the way it swelled and deflated, expanded and creased. That's exactly how I would depict skin in sculpture, instead of a drooping flat piece.  

While retaining most parts of our physical appearances, the "human" in motion was given a strange twist to suggest the otherwise,a skin dwelling (臭皮囊).

So here there are: The Dreamer(AKA The Big Dream)(夢中人), Dance Dance Dance(歡樂時光) and At Your Service(鞠躬盡瘁.)





P.S. I've made two more for the series.