Author Preface  (黃莉莉自序英文)

Silk Road~Thread Thought~StitchShow

Change is the only thing that never change….

Walk into art world is a beautiful accident, wonderful Chapter 2 of my life.

Lily Graduated from Taipei First Girl’s High Scholl, and afterwards National Taiwan University , Majored in Sociology (1981).  Lily had been working for Foreign Company in Electronic industry for more then 20 years.   After leaving Siemens few years ago, Lily joined Mixed needle embroidery class at Community college in 2005 accidentally.  She was overwhelmed by the conflicts of modern efficiency requirement and the traditional handy folk art which contains a lot of inner culture elements of Chinese people.

“Silk” was invented by Chinese, “ Silk Road ” is the route where Chinese culture spreading to western world.   The culture of Silk Embroidery has very close relationship to Chinese daily life.  It is our motherhood culture.   Thousands of years, in every ways of our life, physical and psychal, there were roles of embroidery.

In 2006, Lily’s work “ 101 Taiwan Red~ Show the image of Taiwan ” was awarded ALCIVE (APEC Local Cultural Industry Virtual Exposition).  As “Show” is pronounced same sound in Chinese “Embroidery”.  It presents Taiwan ’s embroidery culture to the world.  This was a great encouraging to Lily’s creation anxiety.  Finding that embroidery could be a very meaningful tool and media to express her inner emotion and creative invention.

“She” ~~ can be very “Modern”.

Embroidery is detail , refinement, three dimension art works.  It shines slightly, and shows different appearance when you observing it from different direction.  Just like what Relativity stands , the description of observers differ from time and light changes….

In 2007, Lily was awarded the residential Artist of Grass Mountain Artist Village, aiming to share, propagandize this art.  Though it was failed due to the fire,  Lily carried up her embroidery painting frames and walked into people…  She has visited and stayed at many public areas, including Park 228, Liberty Square, River side of Tan Sui , Campo creative design markets, Hospital,  District office, Temple, Community college, Dept. store… while doing embroidery work,  at the same time exploring people’s inner emotion to this long lost craft.  There, she experienced the inside exciting from all kinds of viewers, either men or women, aged or young ones….

In 2008, Lily’s two works  “The Opera Lady Warrior” and  “Allocate Country Love-The Stone Lion” was selected to the Exhibition of Weaving Craft in Taiwan- National Center of Traditional Arts. 

Lily was awarded to the Pingtung Fine Arts Exhibition in 2008 and 2009.

“The goal of living is to improve life of whole human beings”  Lily hope that the beauty of embroidery art,  either in tools, such as needles, colorful silk thread…or in the processing:  fly-flowing the silk thread, as a whole,  can brings people peaceful feeling and admiring the elegance.  There exhibited 20 pieces of Lily's Embroidery artworks.

Net needle art makes the embroidery more freely, break off the time consuming craft, more imagination, and more impression space.

Net grid is limit but also liberalization…

The drawing line you want maybe not fit into the grid, you must break through the image of your mind…  It’s easy..  And very difficult..

Know how to let it go…  It requires wisdom..

Embroidery is the art of soul, the art of easy slow life.

Needle moving as your mind~Silk flying as your thought

Silk Road~Thread Thought~StitchShow