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Nona Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in dried flowers, overflowing with soft poignancy. The work’s ornate,
Manila. Her works explore the heavy subjects of alienation, voids and intricate custom frame is contrasted against the modern medium of
melancholy with a magically alluring poetic elegance. Garcia is drawn photography and the classical aesthetic adds an air of timelessness
by the history of any object or place and that human existence will to the work.
be eventually consumed by the passage of time. Despite the overall
sense of hollowness, her works recall the absent people and life as 儂那凱西亞是位年輕藝術家，現居於馬尼拉。她的作品用迷人、優雅
a pervasive, permeating ghost, like a haunting memory that cannot 的詩意探討異化、空洞和憂鬱等的沉重題材。凱西亞對人物和地方的歷
be shaken. Garcia juxtaposes the departed existence and the lasting 史很感興趣，尤其著迷時間的流失對人類存在的磨滅。她的作品雖然整
impact it leaves behind. A delicate mixture of sadness and inspiration, 體孤寂，但同時喚起逝去的人物，像無法忘懷的記憶般，也如無處不在
beauty and desecration, her works leave the viewers reeling from the 的幽靈。曾經存在的與其遺留下來的持久影響造成對比。凱西亞的作品
complex emotions they stir up. 混合了悲傷和靈感、華麗和朽爛，微妙地挑起觀眾複雜的情感。

Being brought up in a family of doctors, Garcia’s creative process has 凱西亞的父母都是醫生，而這個成長環境對她精密的創作過程有明顯的
a precision that is almost scientifically technical. Devout is a beautiful 影響。她照片組合系列的作品是由她每一層小心翼翼剪貼成為浮雕的
example of the artist’s photo assemblage works. In this series, she 「畫作」，而〈虔誠〉是極為優美的例子。雖然這件作品是由凱西亞十
carefully cut and layered photographs to create three dimensional 分精確且有條理地創造出來的，最終作品是一束令人驚嘆栩栩如生的乾
relief ‘paintings’. Although this work is created by Garcia’s arduous, 花，四溢著淡雅的惋惜。作品精緻的特製框架與新式的攝影形成對比，
meticulous methods, the final product is a lifelike bouquet of stunning 而其古典美增添作品萬古不變的共鳴。

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