送流水 Farewell to the Stream (of…)

2022

在我看来，瑞士Verzasca山谷的景观跟我家乡附近川西高原的山地地貌很相似。这种相似性触发了我非常奇怪的思乡、念友之情——它们与被复刻的视觉体验，以及实际身处遥远他乡的物理境况相关。

我请朋友们发给了我几张以前我们共游川西时，他们拍的风景照片。用小时候学习中国画时使用的毛笔，蘸上这里溪流和小河中的水，我试着在水体里的石头上把这些照片里的景物画出来。画完一个局部之后，石头上的水会迅速干掉，所以我把画的每一部分拍下来，最后拼合在了一起。

本项目由瑞士文化基金会上海办公室和瑞士Verzasca摄影节支持。

The landscape of The Valle Verzasca in Switzerland seems to me to be very similar to the mountainous landscape of The Western Sichuan Plateau near my hometown in China. This similarity triggered a very strange feeling of homesickness and longing for old friends, which were linked to the visual experience of being reproduced and to the physical situation of being actually in a distant land.

I asked my friends to send me some photographs of landscapes they had taken when we had previously travelled together in western Sichuan. Using the brushes I bought when I studied Chinese painting as a child and dipping them into the water in the streams here, I tried to draw the scenes from these photographs on the rocks in the bodies of water. After painting a part, the water on the rock would dry out quickly, so I photographed each part of the painting and finally put them together.

Supported by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council and Verzasca Foto Festival.