退出作品    I    湖东

Withdraw from the Works  of  Dong Hu

湖东

1986年生

现居黄山


一直非常认同罗兰·巴特的“文本诞生，作者已死”的观点，所以我从来不愿意在一幅作品完成后跳出来对外解释我的画要表达什么，哪怕看客们有要求，那也只是看客们的事情。


说这样的话并非我狂妄自大，都说一千个读者一千个哈姆雷特，画作也一样，我曾收到过不同读者的不同留言。有人看到忧伤，有人看到了做作，有人看到抑郁，有人看到了安静，也有人看到了隐隐的黑色欲望在慢慢升起。这些我自己是没法解释的，我只是遵从了内心，去画当时让我有感触、让我着迷的景或物，就像缺氧时完成了一次深呼吸，是一种需要。作为一件公开示人的作品，它本身已拥有独立的品格，它已经脱离了我，成为了一个独立的个体，至于读者们看了以后有没有共鸣，有什么样的共鸣，退出到作品背后的我是无法干涉的，因为那是读者与作品之间的交流，它和我的关系已经不那么大了。


抛开作品，就绘画这件事而言，它有着无穷的乐趣，它能够让我忘却时间的存在（你也许了解忘却时间的幸福），但它并不比别的什么爱好更高级，我不喜欢将绘画架到一个很高的位置。在没有真正学习绘画之前，我同样也是个不太懂无聊是什么滋味的人，看书、写日记、登山、喝酒，它们同样都能让我忘却时间，都能让我懂得跟自己相处。只不过现在，我的很多爱好已经被绘画取代了。原因可能还是绘画是最原始的需求，是我小时候就渴望的仗笔走天涯的浪漫梦想，它可以抵达到现实中去不到的地方，比如：梦境中和想像中。所以绘画也是一个造梦与圆梦的过程。

 

因这一特殊属性，绘画在我生活中变得尤为重要。我常常看综艺上的人说没有音乐就活不下去，他们的生命就是为音乐而存在的，这样的人，我真的很佩服。我至今也没有那种离开了画画就不能活下去的觉悟。但绘画，能让我更轻松更自由地度过这偶然的一生，我只能说，能够画画，是我的荣幸，我会很珍惜它带给我的幸福。


        
                                                                                                                                                              湖东

                                                                                                                                              2022.7.15

Hu, Dong
Born in 1986
Lives in Huangshan City



I always agree with Roland Barthe's point of view that "The text is born, The author is dead".  So I was never willing to explain to the audience what my painting was going to express since it had been finished. Even if the viewers asked for that, it was just their business.



It's not that I'm arrogant to say this. As the saying goes, “A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets”, so do paintings. I have received messages from different viewers. Some see sadness, some see posturing, some see depression, some see silence, and some people see faint black desires. 



I can't explain these things myself. I just followed my heart and painted the scenes or things that were touching and fascinating at that time. It was a need like taking a deep breath when I was deficient in oxygen. As a public work, my painting has left me and become an independent individual and has got its own character. As for whether or how the readers will resonate with it, I can't interfere anymore after finishing the work. What matters is the communication between the viewers and the work, not the work and me.



I always find endless fun in painting itself aside from the works. It can make me forget the existence of time (you may know the happiness of forgetting time). But it is not superior to any other hobby, at least from my point of view. Even before I started learning painting, I didn't know what it was like to be bored since I used to be occupied with many hobbies such as reading books, keeping a diary, climbing mountains and drinking, which can also make me forget time and know how to get along with myself. By now, many of my hobbies have nearly been replaced by painting. Perhaps it is because painting is the most primitive demand, a romantic dream that I longed for when I was a child. Since it can reach to the places that couldn't exist in reality, like dreams and imagination for instance, therefore, painting is also a process of making and realizing dreams.



Because of this special attribute, painting plays an important role in my life. I often see that on TV shows people say they can't live without music and their life is for music. I admire them very much. So far I do not feel that I can't live without painting. Nevertheless, I can live my occasional life happily and freely with painting. I have to say that it is my pleasure to paint, and I will cherish the happiness it brings me.




                                                                                                                                                                        Hu, Dong
                                                                                                                                                                        2022.7.15