醬園 85×100cm 油彩
童年在鎮(zhèn)上念小學(xué)，班上一位顯得女生優(yōu)越而傲氣，據(jù)說(shuō)她家里有錢(qián)，原來(lái)她家在鎮(zhèn)上開(kāi)著大醬園。醬園生意興隆，財(cái)源茂盛，大門(mén)外墻上寫(xiě)著“醬園”兩個(gè)特大墨黑的繁體字，大約由于是人民的必需食品，那時(shí)南方各鄉(xiāng)鎮(zhèn)、縣城都有醬園，大門(mén)外白墻上一律書(shū)寫(xiě)著大大的長(zhǎng)方形的“醬園”二字，這有點(diǎn)像所以當(dāng)鋪的統(tǒng)一格式，觸目便是一個(gè)特大的黑色方正的繁體“當(dāng)”字。單憑這紀(jì)念碑式的黑體字，“當(dāng)”鋪和“醬園”一直深印在我的視覺(jué)記憶中。
不知從什么時(shí)候起，當(dāng)鋪和醬園日益衰敗，幾乎消失了。近幾年到南方小鎮(zhèn)參觀，偶見(jiàn)昔日醬園的老模式，頗有新鮮感，那白墻上巨大端莊的黑體漢字極具視覺(jué)沖擊力，那縱橫的粗筆漢字構(gòu)架無(wú)異一幅造型繪畫(huà)。這繪畫(huà)銘記了一個(gè)時(shí)代，亦可說(shuō)是醬園時(shí)代吧，那時(shí)代醬園威風(fēng)，今門(mén)前冷落，我于作品中引來(lái)當(dāng)年小戶(hù)人家乘坐的小舟，停泊于冷落的河濱，聊儀寄托或追思醬園的霸業(yè)盛年。
Sauce Shop 85×100cm Oil color
When I was in my childhood studied in a primary school in the town, there was a girl in my class who appeared to be superior and pride. It was said that her family was very rich. As a matter of fact, her family opened a large sauce shop in the town. The shop’s business is prosperous and therefore, it made a great fortune. In the outside wall of the gate wrote two especially big blackish traditional Chinese characters: Jiang Yuan, which means "sauce shop". It was maybe because sauces are the necessity for people, thus at that time there were sauce shops in many countries, towns and cities in the south of China. In the outside white walls of the gates uniformly wrote two big rectangular characters, "Jiang Yuan", literally "sauce shop", which was a little bit like the unified form of all the pawnshops, with an especially large black square "Dang" which means "pawn" in original complex form of Chinese character caught people’s eyes. Just by these memorial-like blackish characters, I was greatly impressed by the "pawn" shops and the "sauce" shops.
I don’t know from when on, the prosperity of the pawnshops and the sauce shops were on the wane, nearly came to disappear. In recent years, I went to visit some south towns, where on occasion I found the old mode of sauce shops in those past days. These made me feel quite fresh. The gracious huge blackish Chinese characters on the white walls struck my eyes greatly. The freely crisscrosses of the boldface Chinese characters were no less than a mould painting. The painting recorded an era, in other words, the era of the sauce shops, in which the sauce shops were so popular; however, now they became desolate. I introduced in my work the small ship which was used by the petty proprietor at that time, berthing at the depressed bank, in order to memorialize the dominating and prosperous time of the sauce shops.
