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Can plants also become the material to express desire and lust? Since the ancient time lust has become a topic praised constantly by western artists, it's all about human figure and structure.

Contemporary artists have taken flowers to be the metaphor for lust, the tender and gentle petals remind us of a female sexual organ. However, Hou Chun-ming used two plants with deadwood to represent the entwined and absorbing image between two people. An impenetrability desire eager for lust will last to the end of the world like the spring silkworm dead at the end of producing silk.

Recent works by Hou Chun-ming who lived on the country side has developed the universe perspective that responded to Chinese traditional landscape paintings, displaying the lust between human relationships with nature scenery and plants. From the time after martial law ended, Hou Chun-ming expressed lust with a rebellious and baldly images that made a great impact on society taboos. From the observation of construction show with risqué scenes around new cities, gave Hou a start for creating a series of works on block prints and devices that contained criticism.

"Large Intestine Meridian" and "Investigations Into Deities" were created with images and words description, the two works pushed the lust to the ancient legend and myth, overthrow the idea of lust masterfully combining classical and folklore topics with modern issues about the society, politics, and the contemporary idea about lust.

Moving to the mountain area Hou Chunming being a father of two children focus on planting plants and observed them closely, trying to nurture new life by illustrating plants. So that Hou can grow and change in his new role being a father, then the series works on "The First Year of Mi-shia Era" (Mi-shia is a name of the artist's son) came out. (A-Li)