the Absent Mountain and the Absent Thinking

the Absent Mountain and the Absent Thinking

the Absent Mountain and the Absent Thinking consists of two photographic works and two calligraphy works. Wang Wei said: “Empty mountains can not see people, but hear the sound of people.” In ancient times, in the way of “daily writing”, the ancients conveyed their thoughts of relatives and their reverie of metaphysics to the empty scenery. Empty mountains do not speak, in the absence of the way to allow people's reverie, therefore, the absent thinking is not empty. In the present, it is difficult for us to experience this kind of imagination in thinking again. I hope to return to the yearning for “absence” in the way of daily writing. I write cursive poems of Zhang Ruoxu and Tao Hongjing, rethinking ancient people's taste of landscape. In the form of technical images, a kind of thinking is opened, and the meaning of “absence” is preserved with the images of the solitary boat and the ancient temple.

《空山与空想》由两幅摄影作品和两幅书法作品组成。王维说：“空山不见人，但闻人语响。”在古代，古人以“日常书写” 的方式，向空无的景色寄托着对亲友的思念以及对玄理的遐想。空山不响，以缺席的方式允纳着人们的遐想，故而，空想不空。在当下，我们很难再次体会到这种等待中的想象，作者希望以日常书写的方式，再次回到对“空”的思念之中。我对张若虚和陶弘景的诗歌进行草书写作，重思古人对于山水的体味；并以技术图像的方式打开一种空想，以孤舟和古寺的意象存想留白的意义。