Sea Patterns:Experimental Visual Design Solo Exhibition by Hou Chun-Chun
海海紋:侯純純視覺設計實驗創作個展
展覽日期:114年07月05日(週六)至07月27日(週日)
導覽時間:114年07月05日(週六) 下午02:00-02:30
展覽地點:臺中市屯區藝文中心・美學空間
Exhibition Dates: July 5 (Sat) - July 27 (Sun), 2025
Guided Tour: July 5 (Sat) 2:00-2:30 PM
Venue: Aesthetic Space, Taichung City Tun District Art Center
指導單位:海洋委員會
協辦單位:臺中市政府文化局、台灣創意策略發展協會、國立臺中科技大學設計學院設計創意中心、國立臺中科技大學地方共創設計研究室
Advisory Unit: Ocean Affairs Council
Co-organizers: Cultural Affairs Bureau Taichung City Government, Taiwan Creative Strategy Development Association, Design and Creative Center, College of Design, NUTC., Place-making Design Lab, NUTC .
海海紋如同深海中的回音,每一層海水都映照著相似卻不同的光影。藝術家侯純純以獨創的「鹽晶技法」,將海水在黑色金屬表面加熱蒸發,順應「道法自然」的創作哲學,讓海水自然形成純白的結晶紋理。搭配壓克力顏料的造形實驗,透過表面張力與流體行為,投射海底世界的抽象之美。
此實驗創作延續對物質轉化的深度探索,挑戰以紡織品作為藝術呈現的全新媒材。除了呼應大量流汗後在衣物纖維中留下的鹽分痕跡,柔軟紡織品在空間中的自然律動,完美模擬海浪與洋流的節奏。
作品中點綴的橘色、金色等鮮豔小點,正是珊瑚生態系統中最為亮眼的生命精靈。這鮮明的色彩如同海底世界中跳躍的生命音符,在純粹的鹽晶紋理中注入生機,讓抽象的紋理與具象的生態記憶產生對話,呈現海洋世界中靜謐與活躍並存的和諧美感。
潛身於海中,在中性浮力控制的無重力狀態下,那份海納百川的廣闊與寧靜正是此展的核心精神。「海海紋」實驗創作個展追求物質的純粹、視覺的純淨、創作的純真,邀請觀者沉浸於那份隨流擺盪的海洋韻律,見證物質的轉化與精神的昇華,在偶然造形的自我相似中發現宇宙運行的和諧秩序,體驗回歸本質的寧靜力量,聆聽來自海洋與內心深處的智慧呢喃。
Sea Patterns echo the deep ocean, where each layer of seawater reflects similar yet distinct light and shadow. Artist Hou Chun-Chun uses her original "Salt Crystallization Technique," heating seawater on black metal surfaces. Following "nature's way," she lets seawater naturally form pure white crystalline textures. Combined with acrylic experiments, the works reveal underwater beauty through surface tension and fluid behavior.
This experimental creation explores material transformation, using textiles as a new artistic medium. Beyond echoing salt traces in clothing after perspiration, the soft textiles' natural movement mimics ocean waves and currents.
Bright orange and gold dots throughout the works represent vibrant life in coral ecosystems. These vivid colors bring vitality to pure salt patterns, creating dialogue between abstract textures and ecological memories, presenting harmonious beauty where tranquility and liveliness coexist.
Submerged in neutral buoyancy, that sense of vastness and tranquility embracing all waters represents this exhibition's core spirit. "Sea Patterns" pursues material purity, visual clarity, and creative innocence. It invites viewers to experience the ocean's swaying rhythm, witness material transformation and spiritual elevation, discover cosmic harmony within accidental forms, and listen to wisdom whispered from both ocean and heart.
侯純純 Hou Chun-Chun
現任國立臺中科技大學商業設計系所副教授,擔任教職逾二十年,深耕基礎造形學領域的研究與教學實踐。侯純純的創作源於對日常生活痕跡的敏銳觀察,她以寬廣視野捕捉那些易被忽略的細微變化,從雨水在牆面留下的水痕,到咖啡杯在桌面形成的圓環,都成為她創作靈感的泉源。
自2015年廚房意外燒壞鍋具的偶然發現,開啟她對「鹽晶」創作技法的探索之旅。這項獨創技法以海水為媒材,在黑色金屬表面透過加熱蒸發,順應「道法自然」的創作哲學,讓結晶自然形成純白的紋理。她創造性地提出「鹽料」(Saltment)這個複合字詞,源自「鹽」(Salt)與「顏料」(Pigment)的結合,描述以鹽為基底轉化為繪畫顏料的獨特應用方式,展現她對媒材本質的深刻思考。
身為四面環海島國台灣的女兒,侯純純從父親港灣工程的職業背景中汲取海洋情感,將這種取之不盡的創作材料賦予深刻的在地意義。她的創作與生命經驗緊密交織:母親離世十年的思念化為「思親天使」中展翅的天使形象,潛水時與深海生物的相遇重現於「游形幻象」的流動紋理,菲律賓移地研究期間近距離觀察珊瑚群落的震撼,轉化為「珊瑚幻境」的生態詩篇。生活中的每一個片刻、每一次感動,都成為她創作的豐沛養分。
這種介於可控與偶發之間的創作方法,呼應老子「人法地,地法天,天法道,道法自然」的智慧,在看似隨機中展現必然的美學秩序。在人工智慧生成圖像盛行的當代,侯純純選擇回歸最基本的物質探索,以最純粹的物質為始,在科學定律的引導下,讓每一次結晶都成為宇宙秩序的重現,每一幅圖像都是藝術實驗的展演,呈現從意外到意圖之間的造形探索軌跡。
Associate Professor in the Department of Commercial Design at National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Hou Chun-Chun has dedicated over twenty years to fundamental form studies research and teaching. Her creative work stems from keen observation of daily traces—from rain marks on walls to coffee rings on tables—capturing overlooked subtle changes as creative inspiration.
Since accidentally burning cookware in 2015, she began exploring "salt crystallization" techniques. This original method uses seawater as medium, heating and evaporating it on black metal surfaces, following the philosophy of "nature's way" to naturally form pure white crystalline textures. She coined "Saltment"—combining "Salt" and "Pigment"—describing the unique transformation of salt into painting medium.
As a daughter of island Taiwan, she draws oceanic emotions from her father's harbor engineering background, imbuing this inexhaustible material with local significance. Her work interweaves with life experiences: maternal longing becomes angel wings in "Maternal Angel," diving encounters with sea creatures flow into "Dancing Tentacles in Void," and coral observations in the Philippines transform into "Coral Fantasy."
This method between control and chance echoes Laozi's wisdom of following nature's way, revealing aesthetic order within apparent randomness. In an AI-image era, she returns to fundamental material exploration, allowing each crystallization to recreate cosmic order and each image to exhibit artistic experimentation—presenting the trajectory from accident to intention.
Sea Patterns:Experimental Visual Design Solo Exhibition by Hou Chun-Chun
海海紋:侯純純視覺設計實驗創作個展
Exhibition Dates: July 5 (Sat) - July 27 (Sun), 2025
展覽日期:114年07月05日(週六)至07月27日(週日)
(週一休館,Closed on Mondays)
Venue: Aesthetic Space, Taichung City Tun District Art Center
No.201, Daxing Rd., Taiping Dist., Taichung City 411012, Taiwan
展覽地點:臺中市屯區藝文中心・美學空間
411台中市太平區大興路201號