Name/Title
First FlightEntry/Object ID
2008.06.01Description
Ed Pien (b. 1958, Taipei City, Taiwan) is a Toronto-based artist, known for his drawings, prints, and large-scale installations that are inspired by both Eastern and Western art practices and mythologies. For the artist, the process is a bodily response. Knowing what to do requires using his hands. It is a negotiation of "real-time" decisions that lead to both beauty, mishaps, and learning opportunities.
For First Flight (2008), the artist combines the traditional medium of Japanese shoji paper with a modern tool of the utility knife. As he draws with the knife on the fragile material, the cut sections form the image of a dense forest where shadowy figures curiously move throughout the interweave of trees and vines. The imagery seems primordial. However, it is unclear whether this is an allusion to the Garden of Eden or a post-apocalyptic future. Pien’s art is frequently concerned with environmental trauma and humanity’s ancient and symbiotic relationship with nature.
https://www.edpien.com/Dimensions
Height
149.8 cmWidth
97.8 cm