Panpsychism : The Physically of Ink

Artist: Hon, Ngan Ting Rebecca
Date: 2 – 12 July 2019
Venue: New Asia College Ch'ien Mu Library
Statement: 
 “Have things by their motions, while themselves destitute of enjoyment, only to minister to souls as mere stimuli to this mental life” (Hermann Lotze, 1817-1881).
Panpsychism, is the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness. No matter human, animals, plants, even inanimate, also have psychological being.
The mixing effects of ink and water on Chinese rice paper always unique and unrepeatable. Does that nature movement represents all reality has some level of consciousness, even ink and water? 

Rebecca, Hon Ngan Ting is a Hong Kong artist that was born in 80s. Rebecca is specialized in using ink and mix-media as a language; to reconstruct different materials and images.
Graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and University of Sunderland, UK in 2010, she obtained a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design, a professional diploma in Art Administration, Hong Kong Baptist University and a diploma in Creative Cross-Media Illustration and Digital Drawing Techniques from the Hong Kong Productivity Council. She is studying the Master of Arts in Fine Arts (M.A.) at Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her works have exhibited in various country include China, Taiwan, Singapore, UK etc. Short-Listed of Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition, Taiwan. She is also a member of International Watercolor Society (IWS), Hong Kong and artist member of The Fringe Club Hong Kong.

墨有靈 韓雁婷水墨作品展

作者：韓雁婷
日期：2019年7月2日至7月12日
地點：新亞書院錢穆圖書館 
簡介：
美國泛心論者羅茲(Hermann Lotze, 1817-1881)：「所有在空間活動的東西，正可解釋自然狀態的內在活力。」
泛心論（Panpsychism），認為宇宙萬物皆有心靈或精神，即使是無機物也不例外。此說假設宇宙萬物，不論人類、動物、植物，甚至普遍認為無生命的(inanimate)東西，都有內在或心理的存有(psychological being)。 
水、墨與宣紙混合的每一個滲化渲染效果都是獨一無二而且不可複製的。當中的「偶然性」是否就是代表了墨也有自己的意識和它會自主選擇存在與表現方式？ 

韓雁婷，1985年出生於香港，畢業自香港理工大學及英國新特蘭大學平面設計系，2011年獲得跨媒介創意插畫及數碼繪畫技巧文憑，2017年修畢香港浸會大學藝術行政專業文憑，現正修讀香港中文大學藝術系藝術文學碩士。主要創作包括現代水墨、水彩、動態圖像和裝置藝術，作品曾於香港、台灣、中國內地、新加坡、英國及蘇格蘭展出。2018年台灣第23屆台中大墩美展數碼藝術類入選。國際水彩畫會香港分會會員，藝穗會藝術家會員。目前居住於香港。

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