小宇宙The little Universe

我从小就是一个爱幻想的人，而所有幻想的最高境界都汇集到了对太空的好奇，于是就诞生了这组以太空为背景的作品。

一个星际宇航员孤身开始了一场不能回头的旅途，他飞出银河系探索从没有人类到达的未知行星。在长达一生的旅途中，宇航员带着比哥伦布还强烈百倍的兴奋，见到了前所未有的宇宙奇观，实现了人类几千年来的探索梦想。但同时这场旅途的漫长、孤独、压抑也占据了宇航员的另一半思绪，时间、生命、记忆、思念在宇航员心中交织成了另一个宇宙。

其实，每个人的内心都是一个小宇宙，探索自我内心宇宙的期限刚好就是人的一生。这组作品虽然看似天马行空，却意在描写每个人的内心世界，我试图将未知神秘的宇宙与人类内心情感用摄影建立起微妙的连接，所有通过摄影表现出来的视觉效果都希望能够直击观者内心。

The Little Universe

My mind has always been full of dreams and fantasies since I was little, and the climax of all these fantasies have gathered up to the curiosity about the immense space. This is where this space-themed series comes from.

An interplanetary astronaut has started a lonely journey that he knows there’ll be no return. He has reached the planets that human beings have never known or reached before. In this life-long journey to the space, the astronaut brings with him an excitement that even excels Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World, as he has witnessed the unprecedented wonders of the universe, fulfilling the millennial dreams of the human kind. However, the prolonged journey has also evoked the bitterness of loneliness and depression. Time, life, memories and the yearnings for the past have constructed another universe in the astronaut’s heart.

There’s a little universe inside every person, and our lifespan defines the time limit to explore this space. This set of works on the little universe may seem unfounded, but they are in fact portraits of everyone’s inner world. I hope to uncover, with my camera, the subtle link between the mysterious space and the inner world of human beings. And I hope the visual effects shown in my photos will touch upon the hearts of the observers.

和威

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作品 WORKS

墓志铭Epitaph摄影 2012 130x104cm

我坚信

我终会客死他乡

愿我的血液涌出甘露

皮肉生出青藤

筋骨化作枝干

内脏开出花朵

千百年后愿这承载我一生回忆的花园能让你记起我们短暂的相拥

I believe

That I will die on an alien land

May there’ll be amrita coming from my blood

Green vines from my flesh

Bones will grow into boughs and branches

And organs shall blossom into flowers

May this garden with my life’s memory

Remind you of the fleeting moment that we hold each other

Even if a thousand years have passed

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树 Tree 摄影 2012 130x104cm

我身体里有一颗树，只是你们都看不到

它与我一同成长，我快乐时它会开出花朵，我悲伤时它会枯萎落叶

当树上最后一片树叶掉落时我的生命也将走到尽头。

There’s a tree growing inside me; it’s just that you cannot see

The tree’s life follows mine: it blossoms when I’m happy, and withers when I’m sad

When the last leaf falls, it declares the end of my life

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葬花 Goodbye to those lovely 摄影 2012 130x104cm

生芽、含苞、绽露、怒放、衰败、凋零、干涸

在宇宙中生命的每一个阶段都弥足珍贵

Sprouting and generating bud

Blossoming and blooming

Withering, falling and dying out

The universe treasures every phase of a life

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荆棘Thorns摄影 2012 130x104cm

我要穿越这片荆棘之路

可我又眷恋这片柔软之地

I will have to cross this land of thorns

Yet I do favor its softness

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时光Time Tunnel摄影 2012 130x104cm

时光就是一面镜子，纵然我有刹那穿越百万光年的能力，也逃不过那个属于我自己的时光，它那么安静、公平、永恒，让我一次又一次的看清自己。

Time is a mirror

That even though I can traverse between millions of light-years within an instant

I cannot run away from the time that belongs to me

It’s quiet, impartial and eternal; time and again

It urges me to see though myself

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小宇宙Little Universe摄影 2012 130x104cm

每个人的内心都是一个小宇宙，探索内心宇宙的期限不长不短，刚好一生。

There’s a little universe in everyone’s heart

The time limit for its exploration is fair

As this takes a lifetime

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n551w!摄影 2012 130x104cm

身在地球的你可曾仰望星空，那闪烁的星就是我向你发出的讯息啊

Those on the Earth have you ever looked up to the stars

The blinking stars are in fact my messages to you

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钥匙 key摄影 2012 130x104cm

要是我能三元及第

要是我能财满万贯

要是我能福如东海

要是我能返老还童

要是有一把能解决所有问题的钥匙就好了。

Only if I achieve success in every endeavor

Only if I possess an enormous wealth

Only if I have a sea of bliss

Only if I can return to my childhood

Only if there was a key to all the problems

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似乎Maybe摄影 2012 130x104cm

我似乎闻到了桂花香，可太空中怎会有花？

我似乎感觉到了某种神奇，可这平淡的宇宙还是那么平淡。

I seem to have smelled the sweetness of osmanthus, but where do they come from in the space?

I seem to have encountered some kind of a wonder, but the universe remains prosaic as ever

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孤独星The Lonely Planet摄影 2012 120x120cm

最深的孤独并非孤身一人，而是我们同在一个星球却不得相见

The deepest of loneliness is not being alone

But that we cannot see each other even though we are on the same planet

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坠落Fallen摄影 2012 120x120cm

生命是一个不停坠落的过程

我错过了晨曦、错过了微风、错过了晚霞、错过了潮水、错过了呼吸、错过了午夜十二点的钟声

错过了你……

只身坠入了无尽的穹宇。

Life is a process of falling

I’ve missed the morning glory, I’ve missed the breeze

I’ve missed the sunset glow, I’ve missed the tides

I’ve missed my breath, and I’ve missed the bell tone of the midnight

I’ve missed you…

I’m falling all alone into this infinite space

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虫洞Wormhole 摄影 2012 120x120cm

我似乎找到了穿梭宇宙与时光的隧道，耀着白光的隧道已经为我敞开，我可以回到过去修补这一生中的无数悔恨，可我还没想好真的要那样做么？

I seem to have found the time tunnel to traverse the universe; the entrance is illuminating with white lights and waiting for me. Now I have the chance to go back in time and fix all that I’ve regretted in my life, but am I really ready for this?

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影子Shadow摄影 2012 120x120cm

为什么我的影子看起来如此深邃

就如同我在白天看到那深邃星空一般

Why is that my shadow looks so deep

As if seeing the distant starlit sky in the daylight

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太阳风Solar wind摄影 2012 120x120cm

The Solar Wind

Photo 2012 120*120cm

Hi

好久不见，我们好像有十二年未见了，我终于有勇气拿起纸笔给你写下这封几乎永远都无法送达的信。请原谅我十二年前的不辞而别，因为我走向的是一场没有返航的旅途，这十二年间我有无数的见闻想与你分享，可正要说时突然又无从说起……

在旅途中我目睹了无数奇景，有如迷途羔羊般的孤星，有等待坍缩的垂死恒星，有如华尔兹般的星系碰撞，有绚丽无比的宇宙磁暴，有惊险的黑洞逃生，有充满诱惑的未知生命，还有……

还有无尽的宇宙奇观就算用尽我的后半生都无法描述，这些我多想你也能一起经历。可是……

可是现在这些看来都变得无足轻重，没有你我走向的是一望无尽的黑暗，对你思念的越久，宇宙也越发变得暗淡。此刻的我只感觉光阴从身边飞逝，这宇宙浩瀚无尽，路无尽，而我只剩下半生的时间来思念你。

你一定有了幸福的生活，一定还有一个可爱的女儿。清晨阳光会因为要第一个光顾你的花园而早起，傍晚月色会因为你厨房中的美味而露出笑脸；梦想并没有因为你的成长而消磨，岁月也永远不会摧毁你的笑容，在我心中你永远是那年春天里的女孩。

请原谅我选择了一场无法回头的旅途，这一路没有阴天也没有晴天，时间变得模糊，唯一的终点仅仅是我的生命；这一路没有痛苦也不快乐，思念变得强烈，只因为这是一场无法回头的旅途。

今天我来到了猎户座星云，愿这遥远的思念能乘着百年一次的太阳风飞进你手中……

Hi,

It seems to have been a dozen years since we last met, and I’ve finally gathered the courage to write to you this letter which can almost never make it to you. Please forgive me that I left without a goodbye twelve years go, as I was heading for a journey with no return. I have so much to share with you these years, yet I don’t know where I should begin…

I’ve witnessed so many wonders on my trip. There are isolated stars as if they are lost, and dying stars waiting for a collapse; there are galaxies colliding with each other in Waltz, and splendid magnetic storms; I’ve had breathtaking moments when I escaped from the black hole, and I’ve encountered new forms of life that I do not know anything about. There’s so much more…

There’s so much more that I cannot list and describe with the rest of my life. How I wish that you were here to share this experience, but…

But now all those do not really matter anymore. Without you I’m merely plunging myself into an endless darkness. The longer I’ve missed you, the dingier the universe has become. At this moment, all I can feel is the time fleeting by and the infinite space declaring my endless journey. I’ve got only the rest of life to miss you.

You must have lived a happy life by now; an adorable daughter, probably. The sun will rise early in the morning just to pay a visit to your garden, and the moon will shine for the delicious delicacies you made in the kitchen. Your dreams still blossom in spite of growing up, and the hands of time shall never wreck the smile on your face. To me, you are always the girl in the spring that year.

I ask again for your forgiveness, for choosing this one-way journey. There’s no cloud or sunshine, but only a vague hint of time that the journey will end only when my life ends. There’s no pain or happiness, but only an ever-growing yearning for the past because there shall be no return.

I’ve arrived at the Orion Nebula today. I hope these distant thoughts could take a ride on the solar wind that takes place only once in a hundred years, and finally make it into your hands…