Flowerpot people – unlimited creativity

Situated in the hustle and bustle of Chiayi’s Boai Road, Chen Wei-guang can be spotted outside his home fixated on transforming insignificant and insipid plant pots into mysterious and wonderful works of art. This veritable extravaganza of vivid and lifelike images stands alongside the ordinariness of the busy street, with people going about their mundane daily business. This plant pot paradise attracts the attention of near on each and every passerby, and they are often mystified when they discover that My Chen’s previous profession was making remote control molds.

Over these four years, since he fell in love with plant pots, his creativity and innovation has gone from strength to strength. Mr Chen expressed that after inadvertently witnessing someone making pottery he suddenly felt inspired to use plastic to sculpt human figures. After countless attempts and failures, he finally started to have some success, and slowly began incorporating lighting to the sculptures. He said that some people use the sculptures just for ornamental purposes, whereas others have added water pumps so that the sculptures water the garden for you! At present, the majority of his art pieces are in Bantoucuo, Xinkang, Chiayi County where he invites you and anybody else with interest to come along and take a look.

Flowerpot people – unlimited creativity (ellenlee)

URL: http://www.peopo.org/news/76622

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花盆人偶 DIY創意無限 ( ellenlee )

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位於嘉義市區車水馬龍的博愛路上，經常可以看到陳威光就坐在門口，聚精會神地將原本不起眼的花盆，神奇地連結出嶄新的活潑造型，栩栩如生的花盆人偶，裝置得熱鬧非凡的花園，就在人來人往的馬路上，吸引每一位路過民眾的目光，很難聯想到陳先生的本業是搖控模型，四年前開始了他對花盆的無限創意。他說有一天看到有人家做陶瓷，可以串起來形成一個人偶，啟發他用塑膠花盆做人偶的構想，經過許多嘗試與失敗，他說現在「演變到這裡，這已經數不清不知道是第幾代了，然後再配合燈光，有時候我們可以配合抽水馬達，可以讓人偶去幫你澆花啊或是做一些造景用。」陳威光說：目前他的作品擺在板頭厝(新港)那邊，歡迎大家有空可以去參觀。

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