我们是一个整体

作品《我们是一个整体》，共有三面刻有人的形象，分别代表了太平洋的三个种族，波利尼西亚，美拉尼西亚和密克罗尼西亚，且各个面上都刻有来自萨摩亚的各种符号和传统的图案，其中每个侧面上的新生的人的形象寓意了春天与和平，圆形的底座代表了友谊，突出了雕塑展的主题。

作者，帕特里克·梅夫，男，1983年出生在美属萨摩亚的勒欧尼，他从小学三年级就学习画画，2005年大学毕业，现在社区大学教授制作传统的手工木刻制品。曾于2004年参加过 “齐聚一堂”艺术展，并与著名的雕刻大师埃里克森一起学习和创作，擅长木雕、独木舟等。这位国内少有的青年才俊以他独特的雕塑艺术诠释不一样的艺术人生。

We are one

We Are One is his most important and main work until now. The sculpture has three sides with various Samoan symbols on each. The three sides also stand for the three Pacific races, Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian. The inclusion of all the ethnic backgrounds gave him the idea for the name. The newly-born body stands for Spring and Peace, and the round bottom represents friendship, which are the theme of the 9^th Chang Chun International sculpture exhibition.

Patrick Mafoe, was born in 1983 in Leone, American Samoa. He started drawing in third grade, and went from pencil to chalk, painting mosaic, ceramic, carving and also to welding cars. He learned from a Master Carver in American Samoa named Sverortquist from the village of Leone, a well-known artist around Pacific. He has joined an art Festival called Tafesilafa’I in the summer of 2004 in Long Beach, California at Queen Mary. He is a lecturer for the Community College in American Samoa dealing with traditional elei prints like printing a fabric material and teaches how to carve storyboard and traditional patterns in wood. He is good at wooden totem poles, carves, and traditional handicrafts. This young artist will explain art from his understanding in a unique way.