目前仍就读四川美院研究所的杨鹏，是年轻一辈的代表。杨鹏的作品以手作为创作元素，是因为手能传达丰富的情感。人的脸部表情只有喜怒哀乐几种，但手的表情是更丰富的。例如，人的面部表情会说谎，但「手」却是无所遁藏，当人的表情在说谎时，手可能会出现抓、晃、扯等无声的语言。透过他观察入微的心思，杨鹏在作品中画出各种不同的手部表情，藉此探究人性底层的秘密。

除了那「会说话的双手」之外，在作品中也出现「红线」的意象，那绵延不断的，纠缠难解的红线，网住五根手指，就像人类的情感被禁锢在无声无息中，处于难以挣脱的困境。我们无意识地编织了一张网，找到自己的位置，也给身边每一个人找一个位置，慢慢地，所有人都存在在了同一张网中，然后，每一个人都变得相似，失去了个性，越来越多的共性使我们没有了寻找差异的兴趣。人类的智慧最初创造了差异性，使每一个人存在的意义扩大化，而最终又企图把所有的差异性缩小。乍眼看去，似乎这是一张美丽的网，但是在繁荣泡沫的背后则是无限复制带来的毫无生机。

典藏- 今艺术 吴予文

Yang Peng’s Observation on the Struggling inside People’s Soul

Yang Peng, who is studying for the master’s degree in Sichuan Fine Art Institute, is a representative of the young generation. “Hand”, which can convey various emotions, is the key element in Yang Peng’s works. Facial expressions can only convey emotions like happiness, angriness and sadness, but hands can show more. For instance, people can lie by facial expressions, but “hands” will give them away. When a man’s face is lying, his hand, on the contrary, will make moves like seizing, waving and pulling. Yang Peng draws various kinds of hand expressions in his works to explore the deepest secrets inside people’s soul.

Beside the “hands which can talk”, “red strings” is also an indispensable part. Fingers entangled by strings are just like human’s imprisoned emotions. We make a net unconsciously and find a position for ourselves as well as for others. At last, all people live in the same net. As a result, we gradually lose our individuality and become more and more similar to others. The more similarity we have, the less we are interested in trying finding out the difference between us. Human being’s wisdom created difference at first to magnify the meaning of our life, however, it tries to bridge all the difference eventually. It seems like a beautiful net but what lies behind the prosperity bubble is the lifeless uniformity.

Artouch/ Wu Yuwen