賴靜
LAI Jing
見與未見 VISIBLE and INVISIBLE
“見與未見”
——創作手記
法國著名哲學家梅洛龐蒂曾說：“我們看到事物本身，世界就是我們看到的那個東西。”的確，世界是我們之所見。然而，我們看見的這個世界是一個真實客觀的世界嗎？不盡然。在禪宗裏，“可見”即“有”，“不可見”是“空”。鏡花水月、霧裏看花也是我們常有的經驗。“可見的與不可見的”在哲學世界裏，是一個永恒的宏觀命題。在“看”的世界裏，永遠存在著可見與不可見；在感知的世界裏，永遠存在著已知與未知。而這種“可見”與“不可見”也不是對立的、撕裂的，它們因為時間、空間，人的處境、心境等因素的不同，不斷地交織和轉換。我們對事物的觀看角度也不斷發生著變化。時常有這樣的體會：故地重遊，感覺卻大不一樣；心心念念吃過的美食，再次吃到卻沒有了當初的味道……我們習慣通過“看”來呈現“可見”，用“感知”來了解“已知”。但實際這個“看”與“感知”受到了太多的局限，個人的經驗、知識儲備、外部的影響、時間空間、心境處境……都會影響我們的觀看與感知，導致我們每一次的“看”都是片面的、局部的，“不可見”與“未知”的部分可能超出我們的想象。
2020年突如其來且席卷全球的變故，相信每一個人都感同身受。我們每個人都經歷過與人隔絕、隔著玻璃看窗外的時光。外面的世界越來越遠越來越看不清看不懂。這是孤獨的時光，也是一個凝視自己的好時光。在這樣的時光裏，我在自己的畫中造出虛擬小空間，利用鏡子、玻璃、紗、蕾絲、窗框等物品在二維的平面上營造出三維立體空間，來表達我對外面世界以及自我的“可見與不可見”。這樣靜默的畫面，虛構的、似夢似真、略帶詩意的表達，是我給自己和觀者開啟的一道門、一扇窗，一個安靜的思考空間、一處遁身之所。
“見”是已知是過去，而“未見”是期待是未來。
2022年8月於重慶黃桷坪
“Visible and Invisible”
——Note of Creation
“Seeing the thing-in-itself, the world is the one thing that we’ve seen”, said Merleau-Ponty, the French philosopher. Indeed, the world is what we’ve seen. However, is that the world we’ve seen and believed really the true, undoubted and objective world? Not exactly. In Zen Buddhism, “visible” equals to “have”, “invisible” equals to “emptiness”. Unattainable illusions, mystifications are also the experiences we usually have had. “Visible and invisible” in philosophy is the eternal macro proposition.
In the world under “view”, visibility and invisibility are always exist; in perceivable world, known and unknown are always exist. And obviously, the “visibility” and “invisibility” are not opposite, tearing, they interlace and transfer constantly depending on time, space, humans’ situation and frame of mind. The perspective we used to see the things have kept changing. We often have kind of experiences: having different feels when revisit the same place; losing previous taste of the same food…, etc. We used to represent “visibility” through “watching” and acquire “known” through “sense of perceivable”.
But actually, the “watching” and “sense of perceivable” have suffered from lots of limitations, such as personal experience, knowledge, external influence, time, space, situation and frame of mind…, all affecting our perspectives and sense of perceivable, causing our each time of “watching” being unilateral and partial. The part of “invisible” and “unknown” could be out of imagination.
The unexpectedly global epidemic in 2020, led us to the empathy. Each of us experiences the time of isolation, looking out the window segregated by glass. The world outside has became invisible and hard to known. It’s an isolated period and also a nice time to look ourselves. During this kind of time, I created a virtual tiny space of my own paintings, using mirror, glass, gauze, lace and window frame to build 3D space basing on 2D plane, and represented the “visibility” and “invisibility” of outside world and my perspective.
The silent vision, representing through virtual, dreamlike, and poetic, is a door, a window, a silent thinking space or a sanctuary that I have created and opened for myself and audiences.
“Visibility” equals to known and past, and “Invisibility” equals to expectation and future.
HUANG JUE PING in Chongqing, 08. 2022
