Fishing Net. Land and Me
Fishing Net. Land and Me
This work of Asing Sawake, who teaches the aesthetics of aboriginal festivals at the Center for General Education of Tunghai University, combines abandoned fishnets and eco-fabric made of recycled plastic bottles. By integrating the sharp personal styles and aboriginal codes of images, it conveys the artist's concerns about maritime pollution and damages to the environment, which will eventually cause harms to human beings via the food chain.
Material：Fishing nets, cloth
Dimensions：L4✕W4m, 2 pieces
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Asing Sawake
Taiwan
Asing Sawake, who teaches the aesthetics of aboriginal festivals at the Center for General Education of Tunghai University, is an artist from the Amis Tribe in Taitung. By upholding the belief in the souls of ancestors at his hometown, he depicts the aboriginal mythologies and contemporary lives with art works full of wilderness. In recent years, he has further dedicated himself to the creation of land art with aboriginal codes as main elements.
