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Charmaine, aka Feiyu (Flying Fish)

Updated:2024-03-22

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Year 2023

Introduction

Daoist artist Charmaine, aka Feiyu (Flying Fish), was born in 1970 in Dongqing Village, Orchard Island. While he studied at the Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School, the Taiwan Indigenous peoples’ social movement was going through its most heated and turbulent period, and thus he began to make paintings to express his thoughts on the situation of the Indigenous people, for example, issues regarding the rectification of the name of Dao people and the nuclear waste in Orchard Island. Over twenty years ago, he settled down in Dulan area on the east coast of the big island (Taiwan), and besides oil paintings, he also makes driftwood installations, exploring the relationship between life and the ocean. Since the moment he becomes aware of his Dao identity, he always embodies “How to return to the life of a true Dao,” and indeed artistic creation is a part of a Dao’s life.

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