[ 夢土上 ]

I am almost done with my application work. Statement of purpose, resume, slides, and reccomendations...one by one, step by step, I am on the way to my dream. I am going to apply 8 schools. Hopefully I can get into a better one like Pratt, SVA or Hunter College. I looked at my slides in the slide folder under light. How beautiful they are! They are a part of my life…they are my best works… I am going to be a good artist. It’s what I want to do.
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The photo above is a street in my hometown…it is not a night market seriously, but it’s close. It’s a street that always crowded, busy and full of food vendors in the night. The Chinese New Year is coming. You can see the beautiful spring couplets shops, which are shining the red light in the photo. I love New Year!
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I have a good time this winter vacation. In these days, something miracle is happening to me. I feel so happy. Life is so interesting :P

Last weekend, I went to Thai-Ann(泰安鄉) two days with my friend. Before we came back, we went strawberry picking. It was so cold and humid on the mountain, but the strawberries were so sweet! When I came home, I put strawberries, grapes and my mother's little tomatos in a plate. Ha Ha~they were so beautiful, and of course so delicious!

I am remaking my portfolio. This time, most of them are not installation works but paintings. My father has a very good camera and lenses, and he is going help me to take slides for them. Today, I displayed all my paintings that have been collected, then discussed with my aunt and my father about them.
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It was so difficult. I had realized that I am not good at expressing what my art is to people. However, today, I deeply understanded that how weak my oral expression and our people’s art experience are. Art is not beauty, and beauty doesn’t equal to sense. I like my paintings very much. I think they are so beautiful. However, my families don’t.
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Their senses of beauty are base on their own art educations and experiences. I can’t say that their opinions about art and beauty are wrong. All of them have their own value. But, it is pity that there are more possibilities about art and beauty have been ignored by them.