TOWARDS EVENINGS: SIX CHAPTERS
向晚六章
Towards Evenings: Six Chapters (since 2012) is the artist’s ongoing quest for the nebulous space between day and night, light and twilight, the known and the unknown. With a particular focus on the tension between reading and viewing, the series draws inspiration from literary and visual materials across time and cultures. While the chapters stand independently, they also interact with each other and constitute a network of human experiences that center on the intricate and transient time of the dusk.
This body of work includes two parallel projects, The Clock and The Restoration, which are developed along with the six main chapters.
《向晚六章》（2012 至今）是一次探寻黄昏的主题漫游。沉迷于黄昏稍纵即逝的神秘体验，艺术家在创作中吸取了源自不同文化与历史的图文材料，并尤为注重观看经验和阅读经验的比较研究。项目的每个章节既独自成立，又相互作用，共同编织出一个持续生长的立体网络。在日与夜、光与暮光、知与未知之间，艺术家无数次逗留，再无数次出发。
This body of work includes two parallel projects, The Clock and The Restoration, which are developed along with the six main chapters.
《向晚六章》（2012 至今）是一次探寻黄昏的主题漫游。沉迷于黄昏稍纵即逝的神秘体验，艺术家在创作中吸取了源自不同文化与历史的图文材料，并尤为注重观看经验和阅读经验的比较研究。项目的每个章节既独自成立，又相互作用，共同编织出一个持续生长的立体网络。在日与夜、光与暮光、知与未知之间，艺术家无数次逗留，再无数次出发。
本项目包含《向晚时计》与《对创作现场的还原》两项平行作业，伴随六章的创作同步展开。
Nothing is more mysterious than the ensemble of procedures, always identical and never predictable, by which night succeeds day. The first portent of these procedures is always a matter for doubt and anxiety. No one can tell what forms will be adopted, on this one particular occasion, by the night’s insurrection.
I felt that if I could find the right words to describe these ever-changing phenomena, if I could communicate to others the character of an event which was never twice the same, then I should have penetrated or so I felt to the inmost secrets of my profession, … and then I should have gained a vision of the indecipherable forces, the vapours and fulgurations whose obscure conflicts I have only glimpsed vaguely, within the depths of myself.
Many years have passed, and I don t know if I could recapture that early state of grace. Could I re-live those moments of fever when, notebook in hand, I would jot down, second by second, phrases evocative of the evanescent and constantly renewed forms before me? It’s a gamble that still fascinates, and I’m often tempted to begin it all over again.
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropique
I felt that if I could find the right words to describe these ever-changing phenomena, if I could communicate to others the character of an event which was never twice the same, then I should have penetrated or so I felt to the inmost secrets of my profession, … and then I should have gained a vision of the indecipherable forces, the vapours and fulgurations whose obscure conflicts I have only glimpsed vaguely, within the depths of myself.
Many years have passed, and I don t know if I could recapture that early state of grace. Could I re-live those moments of fever when, notebook in hand, I would jot down, second by second, phrases evocative of the evanescent and constantly renewed forms before me? It’s a gamble that still fascinates, and I’m often tempted to begin it all over again.
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropique
白天消逝、夜晚来临所经历的一系列几乎是完全相同、但又无法预测的过程，是最神秘的事。它让标记很突然地在天空出现，充满焦灼、不确定性。没有人可以预测任何一个夜晚会采取什么样的形式降临。
如果我能找到一种语言来重现那些现象，那些如此不稳定又如此难以描述的现象的话；如果我有能力向别人说明一个永远不会以同样方式再出现的独特时间所发生的各个阶段和次序的话，然后——那时候我是这么想的——我就能够一口气发现我本行的最深刻的秘密；……我就能够在一个短暂的白日梦中接受启示，接受那些整天暗暗地在自己内部交战不已的力量之启示。
经过这么多年以后，我怀疑自己难以再有这种如蒙神助的感觉。我还有机会重历一遍那样热情满怀的时刻吗？那时候我手拿笔记本，一秒一秒地记下我所看见的景象，期望能够有助于把那些变易不居、一再更新的外观形态凝固并记载下来。现在的我还是对那时的企图感到深深着迷，还不时地发现自己的手仍然在试。
——克洛德·列维-斯特劳斯《忧郁的热带》
如果我能找到一种语言来重现那些现象，那些如此不稳定又如此难以描述的现象的话；如果我有能力向别人说明一个永远不会以同样方式再出现的独特时间所发生的各个阶段和次序的话，然后——那时候我是这么想的——我就能够一口气发现我本行的最深刻的秘密；……我就能够在一个短暂的白日梦中接受启示，接受那些整天暗暗地在自己内部交战不已的力量之启示。
经过这么多年以后，我怀疑自己难以再有这种如蒙神助的感觉。我还有机会重历一遍那样热情满怀的时刻吗？那时候我手拿笔记本，一秒一秒地记下我所看见的景象，期望能够有助于把那些变易不居、一再更新的外观形态凝固并记载下来。现在的我还是对那时的企图感到深深着迷，还不时地发现自己的手仍然在试。
——克洛德·列维-斯特劳斯《忧郁的热带》
