Tsai Ping Young

Although Tsai Ping Young is not aborigines, he has been a sculpturer of the aboriginal style for 18 years. Why could he do? There are two reasons he told us. One reason is that he has lived together with the Amis and the Atayal aboriginal communities since he was born. Another reason is that he revels in wooden sculpture very much. After many years, he experiences their tribe culture deeply and appreciates the beauty of the aboriginal life. For recent years, the subject of his plane sculpture works is abstracted from the Amis dance and head ornament with feathers. The cadence of the Amis dance is strongly represented by his plane sculpture works. After the traditional sculpture of the Amis disappeared for a few hundred years, he is the first one to recreate the figures of the Amis style by wooden sculpture. He emphasizes it is rational process to catch the mind and philosophy of the Amis and the beauty of the Amis behavior for him without aboriginal blood. Consequently, he thinks it is worth to reserve the unique of the Amis art by sculpture. At present, some of his sculpture works are installed in the National Park of Taiwan and important public locations.