Artist
Amis artist, nicknamed Doudou, had moved to Taipei for a living for twelve years when she was eighteen. Relying on her exquisite aesthetical senses while using raw and natural materials as design elements, she has become a renowned window display designer for department stores. After meeting with other indigenous artists, she heeds her artist calling in 1996 and moved back to the East Coast to focus on the artist’s way of living. She and her friends lived together and helped each other start the “Consciousness Tribe” in 2002 and lived near Dulan since then. Starting from driftwood, she specializes in using various mixed media to explore the mysterious relationship between human spirituality and the divinity of nature. On her artist path over the past two decades, she has participated in many exchanges with international artists, and her works were on display in exhibition halls and galleries around the island. Ruby’s creative process is aiming for the final artwork and an interpretation of her self-made life. Not stick to a specific artform; she always embraces the unexplored territory and breath in the freshest air.
Artwork
Title: Dancing Wind
Artist: Ruby Swana
Materials: Iron, Steel, Stained Glass
Dimensions: 600 CM Long, 200 CM Wide, 300 CM High
Location: Shiyusan (Stone Umbrella), Lawn at the Southern End
Winds
You have so many names
Typhoons, tornados, Northeast Monsoon, and breezes…
Although you are formless, on the clouds and waves, treetops, flowers, and plants
Sometimes you whisper softly with the flowers and trees,
Sometimes we see you perform the earth dance
You made the earth dance with your rhythm as the seeds flying and being scattered
into this vital and lavishing land
You always formlessly dance and flow between the sky and earth
What will you look like if you have forms?
Choose a place near the sea, where the sun rises with plenty of clouds
Imagine you are dancing between the sky and earth in your own style
