漢民足跡 Han's Path

Roy Staab

美國 U.S.A.

年份 | Year
2017

地點 | Location
自然中心前草坡 Grass Hill in front of the Nature Center

材料 | Materials
竹子 Bamboo

阡陌縱橫的關渡平原是我此次作品的靈感來源。我取材漢人入墾的歷史，並從Google地圖上俯瞰關渡的片片水田。我原先對田的印象都是規規矩矩的長方形，但在關渡平原一處角落我卻發現有對角線排列的田出現，於是我決定描繪這個動感的形狀。

我運用架高的水平竹子來描繪這片水田，並將原本設計圖中幾個角落延伸一些，好讓作品更適合所在之處的這片寬闊草坡。參觀者可以走入其中，向上仰望，或至自然中心二樓，由上往下俯視。我很重視作品呈現簡潔的線條，每一條線對於這個整體結構來說都是必要的。

我所使用的竹子都採自公園內或周邊，連結處則用回收竹筷來製作釘子，為求結構安全，也使用麻繩將連接點綁緊。

我要特別謝謝一群不論在艷陽高照、傾盆大雨或細雨薄霧中，都傾力幫助我完成作品的助手與志工。

With paths crisscrossing the rice paddy of the Guandu plain is the inspiration source for my installation sculpture for the Guandu International Nature Art Festival. I referenced the Han immigrant’s work of laying out the rice fields, dividing the land into shapes by using Google Maps to see the rice paddies from the sky. Visually the rice paddy offers me flat and long rectangular shapes, but in places, the shapes turned diagonal into a dynamic figure and the part that I use.

This figure from the rice field I put flat and horizontal on the top of bamboo poles. I made it my design by changing a few proportions and extending some of the shapes. It is site specific on the hill in the open space on the observation side of the building. The viewer can to go inside it, look down upon from the 2nd-floor observatory and looked up at from the walking path. The simplicity of line and materials are important to me; each line is essential to the structure as a whole.

The bamboo that I harvested came from in and around the park and I used recycled chopsticks for the pegs as injunctions to hold the work in place. But as a safety precaution, the junctions and joints are tied with jute string.

I want to thank the many assistants/volunteers who worked with me on hot sunny days and days of heavy rain and mist.