An artist Peter Lee: 2009

人和藝術之健康藝術

人是一種感性和理性並存的動物，個人的感性和理性會以不同的比例出現在不同的時間和空間中。中國的中醫理論講究陰陽調合和五行運行必須互相平衡，不可偏向一方。而中國儒家思想中庸之道講究為人處事必須不偏不倚。藝術家為求身、心、靈的自我解放和平衡，藝術家以中醫理論和儒家哲學之中庸之道為藝術創作的理論基礎。並自稱藝術創作為健康創作，其藝術品為健康藝術。

藝術家將試圖將創作分為兩個階段，第一階段是隨意自由任憑無意識的狀態來創作，並以自身對大自然啟發和河水無窮盡的變化為靈感來源；另一階段是憑藉美學的認知經驗來發現美的存在，經由理性和嚴謹的態度來創造以感性出發，而以理性來包覆感性的健康藝術。

在心靈上，創作者是自由的像大河的流水；是嚴謹的像屹立不搖的大山。在身體上，創作者是身隨心轉，不斷地讓身體的力量來帶動四肢並讓身體遊走作品之中，身體的肌肉產生時而放鬆時而緊繃的相互關係。

藝術家相信透過如此上述的創作狀態，其創作過程是一個健康的療育過程，而作品所反射的也是一種表現生命裡不同階段和不同程度理性與感性的轉換過程。讓觀者自解和省思!!

Health Art

The human is a perceptual and rational coexisting animal. Individual perception and rational will appear in different proportions at different times and in different spaces. China's Chinese Medicine Theory is fastidious that the masculine and feminine elements, to compound, must be mutually balanced with five lines of movements, gold, wooden, water, fire, earth, which cannot be partial to one side. The Chinese Confucian thought, Golden Mean, is fastidious about the manner with which one hands matters too, without bias and without favor. The artist asks the body, the heart, the spirit, self-liberation and balanced, and takes the Chinese Medicine Theory and the Confucian philosophy of the Golden Mean as his artistic creation theory. The artist believes that artistic creation should be a health creation. By following this artistic creation theory, the artist considers his artwork a healthy art.

The artist will attempt a creating process divided into two stages. The first stage is the optional freedom, whatever unconscious conditions create, taking oneself to natural inspiration like river water, inexhaustible change as the origin of inspiration. The second stage relies on esthetics the cognitive experience to discover the existence of beauty, followed by rationality and rigorous manner to create a healthy art that is balanced combination of perception and rationality.

In the mind, the creator is the free running water in the great river; the mountain which rigorously stands erect without swinging. In the body, the creator is the movements that follow one’s desires, leting the body's strength drive the four limbs and letting the body unceasingly walk randomly through the work. The body's muscles move through times of strength and contraction through times of release and flexibility.

The artist believes that by creating the above condition and following this artistic creation theory, the process creates a healthy curative nature, nurturing the creative process. The work reveals the performance of following this creative process and shows manifestations from the different periods, exhibiting the varying degrees of rationality and perception.