《我的塔里木》

“故乡”,是一个在日常语音对话中出现频率较低的词汇,它似乎要在背负着某些东西的语境中才会出现,比如距离、味道、面容、温度,还有遗憾。把他们加在一起,等号的另一边,可能就是“记忆”。塔里木盆地是我出生之后几乎不曾产生过记忆的区域,以至于难以确认身份的无根之感,让在异国求学的日子变得难熬至极。

我与这空缺了的故乡,能以何种程度而联结,也只有将其补全才可知晓。于是我选择南下,去见风物,品风味。于我而言,摄影除了是一种媒介、一种记录方式之外,它也是一种选择,一种更接近“记忆”的选择。两年多的时间里,我在塔里木盆地走走停停,用照片给不完整的故乡,建立了一个“记忆库”。而完整故乡,却是在“选择它是故乡”的一瞬间完成的。

我曾望着一双见过楼兰故城发现者的眼睛,听他讲述祖辈百年前的探险故事,也曾见过已沉睡三千多年曾美丽动人的空洞双眸,看她的秘密被封入时间。每一只羊的肖像,都通向一个餐桌,每一只未系驼铃的骆驼,都通向一个远方。《我的塔里木》,是只有我能见到的塔里木,生与死,都是她注定要讲述的故事。

Project Name: My Tarim.

'Hometown' is a word that being rarely used in Chinese dialog. It always comes with the context of someone bearing something, like distance, taste, faces, temperature, and regret. Put them together, the other side of the equal sign could be 'memory.' The Tarim Basin is an area where almost left no memory on me since I was born, hence the sense of rootlessness and the confusion of my identity made my abroad time even more self-doubting and homesick.

The extent to which I can connect with this uncompleted hometown can only be known if it is completed. Going south to sense the root of the landscapes and the flavors was my only option. For me, photography is beyond a medium to record the scenes, it is a storage system that closes to 'memory.' For more than two years of extension in the Tarim Basin, I managed to use photographs to create a 'memory library' for my hometown. To complete one's hometown, one needs to 'choose it as a hometown' in the first place.

I was looking at the eyes of the person who had looked at the discoverer of Loulan’s Ancient City Ruins whilst hearing the stories from him about his ancestors’ adventures a hundred years ago. I have seen the empty eyes of the Loulan Beauty that have been sleeping in the Taklimakan for more than 3,000 years, with her secrets being sealed in time and sands. The portrait of each sheep leads to a dining table, the camel that without a bell leads to a remote far away. 'My Tarim' is the Tarim that only belongs to me, to tell the narrative of life and death is her destiny.

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