Ashes and Snow (2005)

艺术的真谛来源于对于生命的热爱。看《Ashes and Snow》一定要在漆黑的晚上,除了荧幕,周围一点光和声音都没有。一方面,有净化躁动灵魂的作用。另一方面,有故作恐吓自我的效果。静下来,直到忘我。入画,是一件挺有意思的事情。

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关于作者:格利高里·考伯特(Gregory Colbert),是一位加拿大摄影家。他属非常少见的艺术家,没有和任何画廊签约,过去十年里也没有开过一次作品展,不曾接受任何的采访。他就好象处在“地下”状态,不被人们注意,只有那么几个富有的收藏家在支持他,为他提供资助。他所关注的是人与动物之间神秘的联系。从1992年起,作了27次长途旅行,到达世界上的各个角落。他甚至还连着几个月租下远洋轮。总之,他的那些简洁的摄影作品拍起来是既费钱又费事。现在,42岁的考伯特终于将他这些年来的成果公开展出了。对他来说,这些作品不仅记录了他本人的观察,同时也揭示了一个永恒的王国,人类在其中与各种动物,比如大象、鲸鱼、海牛、猎鹰、朱鹭和仙鹤,共同生活,互相交流。

尘与雪的旁白  
 
If you come to me at this moment   
Your minutes will become hours   
Your hours will become days   
And your days will become a lifetime   
To the Princess of the Elephants   
I dissapeared exactly one year ago   
On that day, I received a letter   
It called me back to the place where my life with the Elephants began   
Please forgive me for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year   
This letter breaks that silence   
It marks the first of my three hundred and sixty five letters to you   
One for each day of silence   
I will never be more myself, than in these letters   
They are my maps of the bird path   
And they are all that I know   
To be true   
You will remember everything   
All will be as before   
In the begining of time, the skies were filled with flying elephants   
Every night they lay down in the same place in the sky   
And dreamt with one eye open   
When you gaze up at the stars at night   
You are looking into the unblinking eyes of elephants,
who sleep with one eye open   
To best keep watch over us   
Ever since my house burnt down   
I see the moon more clearly   
I gazed upon all the Edens that have fallen in me   
I saw Edens that I had held in my hands, but let go   
I saw promises I did not keep   
Pains I did not sooth   
Wounds I did not heal   
Tears I did not shed   
I saw deaths I did not mourn   
Prayers I did not answer   
Doors I did not open   
Doors I did not close   
Lovers I left behind   
And dreams I did not live   
I saw all that was offered to me,
that I could not accept   
I saw the letters I wished for,
but never received   
I saw all that could have been, but never will be   
An elephant with his trunk raised is a letter to the stars   
A breaching whale is a letter from the bottom of the sea   
These images are a letter to my dreams   
These letters are my letters to you   
My heart is like an old house, who’s windows have not been opened for years   
But now I hear the windows opening   
I remember the cranes floating above the melting snows of the Himalayas   
Sleeping on tails of manatees   
The songs of the bearded seals   
The bark of the zeebra   
The clicks of the sand   
The ears of the caracals   
The sway of the elephants   
The breaching of whales   
And the silhouette of the eland   
I remember the curl of the meerkat’s toes   
Floating on the Ganges   
Sailing on the Nile   
Ascending the steps of ****** *****   
I remember wandering through the corridors of Hatshepsut and the faces of many women   
Endless seas and thousands of miles of rivers   
…I remember father to children…   
…And the taste…I remember…   
…and the pealing of the peach…   
I remember everything   
But I do not remember ever having left   
remember your dreams   
remember your dreams   
remember your dreams   
remember   
The longer I watch the Savanna elephants,   
the more I listen, the more that I open,   
they remind me of who I am   
May the guardian elephants hear my wish to collaborate with all the musicians of nature’s orchestra   
I want to see through the eyes of the elephant   
I want to join the dance that has no steps   
I want to become the dance   
I can’t tell if you are getting closer or farther away   
I long for the serenity I found when I looked upon your face   
Perhaps if your face could be returned to me now,   
I would find it easier to recover the face I seemed to have lost my own   
Feather to fire   
fire to blood   
blood to bone   
bone to marrow   
marrow to ashes   
ashes to snow   
The whales do not sing because they have an answer.   
They sing because they have a song.   
What matters, is not what is written on the page,   
what matters, is what is written in the heart.   
So burn the letters   
And lay their ashes on the snow   
At the river’s edge   
When spring comes and the snow melts   
And the river rizes   
Return to the banks of the river   
And reread my letters with your eyes closed   
Let the words and the images wash over your body like waves   
Reread the letters, with your hand cupped over your ear   
Listen to the songs of Eden   
Page, after page, after page   
Fly the bird path   
Fly   Fly   Fly

尘与雪旁白中文版:

此刻,若你到我面前
分成时 时成日 而你的一日,成一生
  
致象之公主:
我是在整整一年之前离去,那一天,我收到了一封信
它把我唤回到我生命里开始有象的地方
请原谅我,这一年来让我们之间只有沉默
这封信打破沉默,它将是第一封
我给你的三百六十五封信的第一封,一封信,为一个沉默的日子
  
在这些信里,我将最是我自己
它们是我的地图,描绘飞鸟的徙途
它们是我所知道的,通往“真”的全部
  
你将会记住每样东西,所有的,都一如从前
在时间的源头,天空满是飞翔的大象
每个夜晚,它们都休憩在天空中相同的地方
做梦,一只眼睛,却睁开着
  
当你凝视夜幕上的群星,你正望进,那些不眨的眼睛
它们是象的,是那些开一目而眠的象的
是那些如此以守护我们的大象的
  
自我的屋子被焚尽,我把月亮,看得更清
我看见了我内心所有坍塌的伊甸园,那些伊甸园曾就握在我手里,终却失去
我看见那些我没有信守的承诺,我没有抚慰的痛苦
我没有弥补的伤疡,我没有放任的泪水
我看见那些我没有哀悼的死亡,我没有回应的祈祷
我没有打开的门,我没有关闭的门
还有,我离弃的爱人,和没有实现的梦想
我看见了全部那些我没有接受的呈请,我看见了全部那些我希望收到却始终未来的信
我看见了全部那些本可以的却再也没有实现的
  
举起鼻子的象是发往群星的信,跃出水面的鲸是寄自海底的信
而这些图景是写给我梦想的信,这些信是我,给你的信
  
我的心仿如一座老屋,窗户已多年没有开启,可现在我听见窗户打开了
  
我记起,鹤群在喜玛拉雅的消雪上漂游
在海牛的尾鳍上休憩,有须海豹的歌唱
斑马的啸嘶,沙砾的喀哒声,狞獾的耳朵
象的倾摇、鲸的翔跃、和羚羊的剪影
我记起猫鼬脚趾上的卷毛,恒河的流淌
尼罗河上的船航、上升的脚步
  
我记起在哈特茜普苏德女王神殿回廊上的徘徊
和很多女人的脸,无际的大海和绵延千里的河流
…我记起父亲变成孩子……还有那些味道…我记起…..桃子发出的铃响…
  
我记起,所有,可我却不记得我曾经,离去过
记住你的梦想,记住你的梦想,记住你的梦想,记住
  
我注视那些草原象越久 ,倾听那些草原象越久
我就变得越可汇纳 ,它们提醒我 ,我是谁
  
愿这些守护象听到我的祈望
我想要和大自然里所有的管弦乐家合作,我要通过大象的眼睛去看
我想加入这无须舞步的舞蹈 ,我想要成为这个舞蹈
  
我不能告诉你
你是在更接近,还是在更远离, 我渴望那看着你脸的时候所获得的宁静
也许现在,若你的脸能重新浮现 ,我会更容易地复得那张我以为已经失去了的我自己的脸
  
羽成焰 焰成血 血成骨 骨成髓 髓成灰 灰成雪
鲸不歌唱是因为它们有一个答案 , 它们歌唱是因为他们有一首歌
  
重要的,不是记载在纸上的 , 重要的是,是书写在心里的
所以,烧了这些信吧 , 把它们的灰撒到雪上
在河边 当春天来临,冰雪消融 ,河水漫溢,攀上河岸
  
这时再用闭上的眼睛重读我的信 , 让那些话语和图景如浪花般洗刷你的身体
当你的双手罩着你的耳朵再重读我的信,倾听伊甸园的歌声…….
一页,接着一页,再接着一页,沿鸟的徙途 飞翔 飞翔 飞翔……

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