如同所有意识到自己生活在现代社会的女性一样,尤其是作为艺术家,袁耀敏也不得不同时面对古代传统与现代文明的冲突,男性话语与女性意识的冲突。袁耀敏的作品从一开始就体现出在这无法回避的两种冲突中寻索的迹象。 起初她以类似波普的手法,将中国民间传统中的著名故事的木版年画,与具有相同的现代人形象拼接在一起, Like all women who realize that they are living in modern society, especially as an artist, Yuan Yaomin also had to confront the conflicts between ancient traditions and modern civilization, male discourse and female consciousness at the same time. Yuan Yaomeng’s work, from the very beginning, shows signs of searching through these two unavoidable conflicts. At first, she used the similar Pope’s method to combine the woodcut pictures of famous stories in Chinese folk tradition with the images of the same modern people.