For many year, Buteo Huang has hoped to bring viewers a whole new vision through his kite creations. He conveys his passion for local Taiwan culture, respect for Chinese culture, and concern about environmental issues through his virtues and knowledge. He creates a fresh educational issue and leads everyone into the deepest comprehension and reflection. Here we divides Buteo Huang’s kite creations into four topics so that readers can understand his kite works directly and conveniently.
A. Local culture: Through Dawu traditional fishing vessel and flying fish, Buteo Huang successfully flies Taiwan indigenous culture, Dawu flying fish festival, into the sky. In addition, the totem of Atayal can fly into the sky as well. All of these lead Taiwan people treat unique beauty of indigenous culture seriously again.
B. Chinese culture: Buteo Huang integrates unique Chinese elements, including faces of Chinese opera, Chinese dragon, tiger, porcelain, goldfish, and so on, into art creations. Buteo Huang preserves aesthetics of Chinese traditional culture and ingeniously display it in his creations.
C. Environmental issue: Buteo Huang takes ‘tree rings’ as an element of creations. He urges that human beings should avoid over cutting and reflect on environmental protection through his unique creations of ‘seeds’, ‘disappearing forest’ and so on. In addition, Buteo Huang has created many marine life kites. He hopes that our people can value sustainable management of marine ecology by constructing the context of marine ecology. Consequently, we are able to see all nature’s beauty on earth anytime.
D. Creations: Buteo Huang can build everything we see into kites, including those fly in the sky, swim under the water, and walk on the ground. His Two dimensional or three dimensional kite creations are very common, which profoundly amaze everyone.
Let’s fly into Buteo Huang’s kite world!
A. Local Culture
B. Chinese Culture
C. Environmental Issue
D. Creations
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Works introduction
A. Buteo Huang claims that his art pieces could have different combinations of meaning. The leaf-shaped seeds have five different colors representing Five Elements, wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Along with white an egg or cocoon, there is a meaning of rebirth. The seeds could transform into the ocean if we collocate them with other animals and change the topic. Basically each of his kites can fly into the sky. He applies the latest materials to design kites as well.
B. The lion dance and dragon dance, which is Chinese people’s favorite, also can display in the sky, says teacher Huang. His kite designs are limitless.
