When you spend a significant portion of your life far from whatever roots the lottery of fate and history saw fit to bury you with, you learn to sample the climate a bit differently, working through volatile networks of communication. I think I am able to recognize this mentality of artistic production, one that is familiar across times and places but always unique to itself because that is what it sets out to be—set apart from anything that is given, assumed, intended.

縱然柏丹的畫風帶有些許庫爾貝、塞尚、梵谷的色彩和力道，但他透過實地寫生和參考照片創作，在人體動作和溪澗山岩的表現上，相當凸顯濃厚的台灣味和炙熱的南國風情。

Even his depiction of realistic scenes gives off a dramatic tension, creating a kind of dialogue that gives ordinary everyday life a genuine sense of presence.