The Girl with the Golden Hair – Emancipation 脫離束縛

Size: 61 x 76.5 cm (With Frame)

Medium: Acrylic

Year of work: 2002

This is my first artwork in high school when I studied in Canada, the period without my parents around.

We rely everything on our parents in childhood. However, there could be times we feel mentally struggling as if reliance = freedom constraint. “Can't Mom and Dad just stop bothering me?”  These thoughts often occupied my mind when I was a teenager, they gave me lots of heavy rules to follow that I just couldn’t mentally afford. Just like the girl depicted in the painting, striving to break free to reach the sky and feel the freshness of the rain, but stuck to the tree trunk with no way out. The foundation built between me, and my parents is full of cracks, and the cracks are full of suffocation of their daily control.  

However, when I studied in Canada, I was very happy. I finally felt liberated from those constraints and enjoyed the freedom I had yearned for day and night. I experienced the new sunlight, sky, and rain. I could finally explore the world.

Looking back at this artwork after years, I guess my parents would probably feel sad seeing this story. However, who hasn’t been through rebelliousness to adolescence? This is how we grow, and it's only when we grow up that we truly understand our parents' intentions and thoughts at that time.

這是我高中時期的第一幅作品。在加拿大念書時創作。

小時候我們都依賴爸媽照顧自己，偶爾也會覺得爸媽很煩，覺得他們是一種束縛，想脫離。 想要自由。爸爸媽媽可否不要管那麽多？真的很煩。 這種想法在年輕時總在腦海裏。就如圖中的女孩，黏在樹幹裏，想接觸天空，感受雨水卻活活的掙扎走不出來。植物除了陽光沒有雨水滋養是會死的，地面的裂痕除了代表我與父母的關係開始破裂，也代表我覺得自己快被每天的管束逼死了。

無疑，到了加拿大念書，我是快樂的，覺得終於脫離束縛，獲得我日思夜想的自由。終於可以探索這個世界。 去接觸不一樣的陽光，天空和雨水。

現在長大了，回看這作品，父母看到這段簡介應該會挺傷心的吧。但我們都是這樣長大過來的，青春期的反叛，誰沒經歷過？還是長大後才懂得父母當時的心意與想法。