Sunrise and Wave

I ought to be honest about this work, it does not have any wave, nor sunrise at sea. In fact, it’s just a leaf of lotus.

“Lotus, not again!” I think I hear something.

You should not care what the real matter it is, but what I want it to be. Every time when creating an abstract work, I am just a child playing with the plasticine, imagination is the key.

You may doesn’t understand why I created so many abstract than realistic works.

It’s my arts, and I will continue.

Tranquility Is The Melody

I’m about to finish posting all lotus works of 2020.

Let’s get to the ultimate tranquillity.

These two works also appeared in my Lotus Project, but I want to say something about the Zen, and they are the perfect examples to show what Zen’s mood is.

Many people consider: Minimalism = Zen, that’s wrong, in fact, they are so different. We all know LESS IS MORE ( I think it may be the start point and core of Minimalism), so photographers always want to keep their composition minimal by using large negative space and less elements. But what Zen wants to express is not only about emptiness, simplicity, austerity, but also includes tranquility and natural attitude to our life.

In these two works I want to show the tranquility I felt that time, normally we often use mirrored water surface as the negative space and keep the lotus leaf (or other elements) reflected perfectly, but I waited an other moment - a water drop dropped onto the water surface and perfect ripples appeared - the ripples break the mirrored surface but enhanced the feeling of tranquility, as if you can hear the sound of raindrops in a tranquil environment, that is one of what Zen wants to say, emptiness is not empty.

Well, that’s very hard for me to write in English, hope you could understand.

Water lily / 阿橘、梦、串线与草食系

又是一个独自的周末夜晚。

随便吃了一点泡面,看着Netflix的剧打发时间,并没有要玩游戏的冲动,虽然新买的2个游戏都没有通关。这两天是体力疲劳的两天,打算喝点啤酒时觉得没有胃口,于是打发自己去超市买点最爱的零食——薯片,然后多加了一瓶黑橄榄可以早饭或者披萨使用。

走在路上,看着擦肩而过的女孩子,哼着陈绮贞的《旅行的意义》的歌词:“你看过了许多美景,你看过了许多美女……”当然,都与我无关。

走回到楼下的时候发现一只年纪尚小的阿橘,唤了他一下(公的)就跟我走进楼道,不行,绝对不能带家来,所以就大声咳嗽了一下吓走了他。赶快上楼打开门,拿起鞋柜上放着的流浪猫专用猫粮又下到楼底,看见他还在附近转悠,便又唤他过来,一溜小跑并喵喵叫着过来——声音不好听——蹭着我,大概知道是要喂食,尤其是当我把猫粮倒出来的时候,他狼吞虎咽。我想,这只猫可能以前也有人喂,听说我这个城市流浪猫在全国都是排前列的,而且投喂流浪猫的人不在少数。

也许,从某种意义上说是件好事,毕竟说明人心较善。但是有人反对说会增加流浪猫数量,我就懒得管了。

这,总比虐猫好。

最近的梦都是很离奇的,主角经常不是自己,完全陌生的人物关系,完全陌生的场景,似乎是别人的梦境,也许是和别人串线了吧。

说起串线,高中时和一个关系甚好的女生打电话(固定电话,那时手机还是大老板级人物用的),聊到另外一个男同学,第二天他来学校问我是不是和她聊起他并且说了什么样的话,我惊呆了,以为她告诉了他,结果他说,他拿起电话准备打给她的时候突然听到我在和她聊天,所以全程偷听了下,这个串线真的好巧啊!(我们那个年代用固定电话的人都会有的经验就是串线,经常拿起听筒会听到别人打电话的声音。)

当然,我觉得她现在看到我这个网站的可能性几乎为零,不过还是想把这个有趣的事情分享一下,希望她不介意。

继续说梦的话题,梦境中的主角虽然不是我自己,但是依旧是以第一人称的视点去体会梦境的,因为不是噩梦,所以也就由着梦境自己发展,居然会有后宫剧情……这个男主角挺风流啊。

还有一个好玩的事情,上周末去罗森买东西,出门的时候路遇一个搀着男友的女孩子从门口经过,看到我后就停下来对他说了一句什么,然后盯着我笑。我不认识你啊,真的不认识,我心想(我认识的女性很少,自然全部都会记住),然后转身就走,能感觉到她的视线跟着我很久,对不起对不起,我真不认识你,我不知道她对他说了什么,但是那个眼神简直就是要把我吃掉了。

而我,是草食系。