In the summer days, under the blue sky and white clouds, endless ocean waves; the sea breezed away, thousands of light scales raised. Those images and scenes had made me feel incomparably happy and free from worry.

Grew up in east Hualian seacoast, I embraced a special emotion and passion to the sea. "Songs of the Island"not only shows a nature to be vast, it also carefully describes the tenacious vitality of the subtropics seacoast plants in a detailed way. These branches and leaves lived strongly as they struggled through the blaze of the sun and the chill of the wind, they have elaborated their endless expended and extended vitality. This vitality of the nature is my esthetics of creation, and "Songs of the Island" is my ode to life.

- By Huang Ming-chang