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图/贴心姐妹网 Heidi Chan摄影展
除了音乐创作和演奏，她还通过摄影纪录和表达她对的世界的观察、感受和思考。
由艺术合作社Between和多伦多公共图书馆爱静阁分馆共同举办、正在多伦多公共图书馆爱静阁分馆举行的一个摄影展展出了陈蔚怡的摄影作品（地址：155 Bonis Avenue, Toronto。今天是展览的最后一天）。
这个题为“时间和身份之视觉之旅”（“The visual exploration of time and identity”）的摄影展主要由两部分组成：一部分是关于食物的摄影作品；一部分是陈蔚怡在世界各地演出时摄下的关于世界各地街头墙壁的摄影作品。
艺术家关于摄影展的自述：
Food Studies
图/贴心姐妹网 Heidi Chan摄影展展出的关于食物的摄影作品
Food is intimately connected to and representative of cultures and subjective tastes and preferences. Whatever is found in our kitchen are often telling of who we are as individuals and where we are rooted culturally. They are also often overlooked as objects containing rich, unique, and suggestive shapes, lines, textures, and patterns worthy of aesthetic exploration. My first attempt at photographing food began with egg shells, which I collect and crush into granular bits to add to the soil of my indoor plants. I was attracted to the shapes, patterns and visual balance and geometries of the jagged edges of half-broken stacks of shells. I then experimented with both uncooked and cooked noodles, pieces of vegetables, and dried packets of Chinese soup ingredients. These initial studies have inspired me to further develop the idea of photographing food associated with personal histories and memories, such as collecting and photographing food items (meals, snacks, candies, etc) we grew up eating, foods that remind us of significant life events, or foods that we associate with meaningful places and people.
Project Street Walls
图/贴心姐妹网 Heidi Chan摄影展展出的关于街头墙壁的摄影作品
This is an ongoing project in photographing street walls around the world through my travels. There are many levels of interest in capturing these images. The bits of paper that remain on walls are artifacts of human activities and events that have connected and mobilized people living in and traveling through these cities - a music concert, comedy show, hobby gathering, lost pet, ads for rentals, classes, dates, etc. The colors, lines, textures, and thickness of these fragments are shaped by both people and nature, sculpted by time itself. To me, these images are a rich source of abstract imagery, and at the same time are suggestive of the most personal and intimate stories of human activity. Layers of paper, dirt, rust, and paint are tied to layers of human connections. They also appeal to my musical sensibilities: as a percussionist, I am constantly drawn towards patterns, rhythms, and relationships in both auditory and visual realms. What were originally functional acts of social outreach, through the erosion of time, have now become unique, one-of-a-kind, abstract visual compositions. At the same time, they are universal, because they can be found wherever there is human activity. These photographs are static images, but the walls themselves are constantly changing, like natural landscapes - decaying, shape-shifting, fading, micro-fibres of paper continuing to be stripped away through the elements, creating new patterns and geometric relationships to be discovered.
艺术家简介
Heidi Chan is a musician based in Toronto, Canada. She has performed with numerous groups in various disciplines and traditions, and continue to explore and expand her versatility by collaborating with different artists in challenging and meaningful work. She has performed across Canada, the U.S., U.K., Norway, Poland, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Russia. Her musical skills and interests range from traditional Japanese percussion and flute music to experimental improvisation and performing with electronic media.
Chan is also a self-taught photographer whose passion is street photography, abstract images, and finding evocative details in ordinary and transient objects and occurrences. She sees photography as an extension of her musical sensibilities, which often draws her towards visual patterns, rhythms, and textures found in cities across the world. Like music, the act of photographing requires time for preparation, observation, concentration and engagement for the unfolding of events or a passing image. But unlike music, the result of photography is the spontaneous and direct experience of an image. Chan's fascination with time, patterns, and relationships are reflected in her photographs exhibited here.
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