根雕作品《踢破青天》(见左图)是我的得意之作。曾有一旧本朋友意欲重金购买,本人未遂其愿,藏于橱中自珍,常常观赏,时有新的收获。《踢破青天》原材料是1996年冬天在浙江奉化山区采回来的杜鹃老桩,本准备制作盆景的,但未成活。在苏北平原见到杜鹃老桩实在不易,本人因而未舍得丢弃。观察揣摩几个月,终于发现了现在见到的人物动态的雏形。仅在左肩和膝处截掉两根多余岔根,其它基本上保持原貌。确定的主题是:一男性武士猛然转身踢击对方的刹那间爆发出的雄奇力量。这种力量所向披靡,无坚不摧,是生命的永恒的主旋律,是宇宙间普遍的深刻的哲学概念。围绕这一主题,创作构想是:首先,制成裸体形 Root carving works “kicked the sky” (see the left) is my favorite work. Had an old friend intends to spend heavily to buy, I did not wish its own, hidden in the cabinet since the Jane, often watching, when a new harvest. “Kicked the sky” raw materials is the winter of 1996 in Fenghua Mountain in Zhejiang Province back to the old cuckoo, prepared to make bonsai, but did not survive. In the northern Jiangsu plain to see the old rhododendron is not easy, so I was not willing to discard. Observe a few months to figure out, finally found the dynamic prototype now seen. Only in the left shoulder and knee cut off two extra branches, the other basically remain the same. The theme is to determine: a male warrior suddenly turned kicked each other’s sudden burst of magnificent force. Invincible and all-conquering this force is the eternal theme of life and a profound philosophical concept universally used in the universe. Around this theme, creative ideas are: First, make a nude shape