BACK TO NATURE SERIES, 1992

Back To Nature

In the eleventh solo exhibition, back to nature, this prolific and highly imaginative artist has turned her prodigious energies to evaluating the natural world around her against the conventions of modern society. Held to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro on June 3, 1992; the exhibition of this particular series of works represents Lin Hsin Hsin's observations and concerns on the issues of preservation of wildlifes and deforestation. Treated in her usual whimisical manner, the works are social commentaries, satirical and ironical at times yet always lightened by her irrepressible sense of the ridiculous. Though superficially they appear na‹ve, quirky and light hearted they hint at underlying layers of meaning and belie a hidden sophistication.

There are certain dimensions in aesthetic standards which are ever shifting with the changes in man himself. Hence as is so often the case, he frequently sees only what he wishes to see. The philosophical and psychological relationships which may exist between the twain is too entwined to disentangle into coherent reasons of logic and rational thought. Therefore in Lin's works where at times the picture is reduced into its barest essentials, using the minimum of lines and shapes; it is up to the viewer to place the work into their own context and ethical frame of reference. Though concious faculties dominate in Lin's compositions yet Lin makes no overt claims, nor does she offer an analysis, her works simply attempt to capture poetic truth as she sees it.

Hsin Hsin in a padi field