Spring's First Bloom
Camphorwood
Size 45.3 × 73.7 × 65.0 cm
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Certificate
M2025Camphorwood000001PA
Artist
HUANG PIN-TONG
Creation Year
2024
Intro
Huang Pin-Tong's "Spring Budding" is a gentle fantastical journey that skillfully merges the languages of sculpture and painting, juxtaposing nature, childhood whimsy, and dreams to create a visually rich experience that is both narrative and poetic. This "Mountain Baby" is draped in a vibrant forest of spring, symbolizing the vitality of nature's awakening, as if spring itself has transformed into a cute and spirited entity.
From the front view, the mountain baby reveals its round, bare feet, exuding a childlike warmth, while gently cradling a small cloud in its hands, reminiscent of a child discovering the beauty and wonders of the world. The layered colors on the surface—delicate greens, yellows, and pinks—reflect the warm essence of spring's resurgence. When viewed from the back, the overall shape resembles a fluffy, soft mountain adorned with circular protrusions that evoke floating clouds, adding a rich three-dimensional quality and producing distinctly different visual effects from various angles.
The artwork is crafted from camphor wood, contrasted with delicate applications of acrylic and oil paints that give the sculpture a fabric-like softness, breaking free from the rigid impression typically associated with wood carving. Through meticulous sculpting techniques and layers of color, Huang Pin-Tong imparts a living warmth to the piece, making it resemble a slumbering spirit of the earth, as well as a spring goddess awakening. This work not only showcases the possibilities of sculpture but also reminds viewers that amidst the busyness of reality, one can still experience the purity and beauty of life through the lens of childlike innocence.
From the front view, the mountain baby reveals its round, bare feet, exuding a childlike warmth, while gently cradling a small cloud in its hands, reminiscent of a child discovering the beauty and wonders of the world. The layered colors on the surface—delicate greens, yellows, and pinks—reflect the warm essence of spring's resurgence. When viewed from the back, the overall shape resembles a fluffy, soft mountain adorned with circular protrusions that evoke floating clouds, adding a rich three-dimensional quality and producing distinctly different visual effects from various angles.
The artwork is crafted from camphor wood, contrasted with delicate applications of acrylic and oil paints that give the sculpture a fabric-like softness, breaking free from the rigid impression typically associated with wood carving. Through meticulous sculpting techniques and layers of color, Huang Pin-Tong imparts a living warmth to the piece, making it resemble a slumbering spirit of the earth, as well as a spring goddess awakening. This work not only showcases the possibilities of sculpture but also reminds viewers that amidst the busyness of reality, one can still experience the purity and beauty of life through the lens of childlike innocence.
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