Under the gray sky, we saw snow capping the high mountain, and many smokes curling from the valley. The frozen flowing water became silent, calmly took away the noise and glitz in the world. On the foot of the hill, withered tree trembled in the bleak winter, and opened its strong branches to the cold air. It was like an old men of wide knowledge and experience, he had created an empire legend, but couldn’t escape fading into the history. Although his skinny body with years rolled away, he was still strong to fight for his life. I was shocked to feel the power of its strength to conquer the universe.

Suddenly, I felt something different stirring inside the picture with a wonderful change. All of the color became visible, forming the image of a beautiful lady whose curled hair was styled into an elegant up-sweep, and revealed a shiny forehead. She used a peacock feathers fan to hide her face. As our eyes scanned different parts of the portrait, her smile seemed to fade in and out like Mona Lisa’ smile. Or she had great sorrow, and she did not want you to see her sad face. Anyway, her mysterious illusion was enough to touch my imagination to guess her nobility origin. It was first time for me to watch the photo in this way, felt the beauty of nature of such a change in the rhythm of fascinated color.

 The world is in this way; looking at the same thing from another angle, usually get our feelings changed. No boundaries, no painstaking, the time seems slowing down, the space seems narrowing, all we should do is just use simply trust to find a way there by using our own intuition to feel the art.

Fortunately, it was my honor to meet the author Antonin. He affectionately told me that this photo was composed of two parts: the maple in his French garden and Chinese ink painting.  A Frenchman living in China, he had his own nostalgia, but he recorded his memory with the camera to release his missing feelings. To French and Chinese culture, this element exerts a subtle specifically applies to the photo, can be seen in the production aspects of the study of Chinese customs. Finally, a magical chemical reaction happened, and a wonderful image directly displayed in his studio.

Possibly, everyone has two worlds, a naked real world, and a imaginary fantasy world. We just know that life is elsewhere, it is in a place, which is distinct from real life, which is seemingly far away, but it is actually right before your eyes. Hope you and me could find a right and comfortable position in the fickle world. Also, wish you and me could lucky to gain a perfect spiritual state , no longer living in another place.

This article is to record my purchase of Antonin’s art work “living in another place”. Meanwhile, to celebrate my first art collection.

 初看，这幅照片，想到，唐代诗人王维的诗句：“远看山有色，近听水无声。”寒色苍苍，白雪皑皑，距离产生美感，让人觉得其有无限的风光。源头活水本是“动态”，却因冰封千里，进入无声的“静态”，让人想要一探究竟，自然而然地去接触它。叶子己在秋天将自己的生命尽情燃烧，只剩枯落的树枝在凛冽的寒风中瑟瑟摇摆，孤单又坚强。恰似年华，终究会老去，此刻，它就像是一位老人，生命的经历如同高山般的传奇，也有退出历史舞台落寞的背影，即使只有瘦骨嶙嶙的身板，也依然铁骨铮铮的活着！这种活着的力量，让我震撼。

 细看，这幅照片，瞬间，它在我眼里产生了美妙的变化，所有的景象幻化成一位女子：盘起优雅的长发，露出美丽的额头，孔雀羽毛的扇子遮住了她一半的脸，千呼万唤，却始终是“犹抱琵琶半遮面”。仿佛蒙娜丽莎的微笑，你根本就不知道她是否在对你笑。又或是，她很忧伤，她不想让你看到她难过的样子，这是一种修养。神秘的幻影足以让我想象她高贵气质下的身份，即使不知道她是谁。可能什么也没有发生过，她只是悄悄地来过，美丽的独秀带着沉默。画面却制造出稀有的感觉，让我为之着迷，神魂颠倒。

 这就是艺术的魅力，在不同的角度里，可以看到千面的人生。没有界限，不用费尽心思地去想这幅画的意义，简单地用我的直觉来感受，随我的喜欢而喜欢，仿佛时间可以放缓，空间可以屏蔽，只剩下我和这幅画的存在。

有幸在画展里看到原创作者安东尼先生。他亲切地告诉我，这幅画是由两个部分组成：法国自家花园里的枫树和中国的水墨画。甚至把这幅照片的制做秘诀和过程都倾盘而出，这样的耿直让我觉得可爱。但是，当他费力地解释显影药水名称时，我感动了，因为他的认真和真诚。一位身居中国的法国人，这里是他的第二故乡，他也有乡愁，把自己对中法的记忆，用光圈来记录，用自己的感觉进行融合，产生美妙的化学反应和视觉效果。

 可能，每个人都有两个世界，一个现实又赤裸裸的世界，又一个是幻想中美好的世界，人世中，匆匆忙忙，可望而不可得，这就好像——生活在别处。但愿你我，都能在浮躁的尘世中，找到自己的位置，也祝福你我可以幸运地过着两个世界重合的生活，不再，生活在别处……

 仅以此篇文章记录我在自己的人生中购置的第一幅作品《别处》。

 Yan