上海博物馆藏有一面西汉时期的青铜透光镜，在镜子的背面有八个字的铭文 “见日之光，天下大明”。 我觉得这八个字能够很好地概括这次全球应对疫情的状态， 善与恶，优与劣，透过新型冠状病毒这面镜子，日光之下，昭然若揭。也由此，我把这幅新作的名字定为 《现形镜》 （Revealing Mirror），来表述我本人站在一名中国艺术人的视角是如何看待这场全球大流行的。


经历着疫情，作为中国人，我自觉是非常幸运和自豪的。因为我们生活在一个把人民群众的生命安全和身体健康放在首位，敬重生命的国度。绝大多数的中国人明白什么叫同舟共济，舍身取义，知恩图报。我们也很清楚全人类的命运休戚相关，唯有竭诚合作，世界才会走向美好。


“人类命运共同体”这一理念，照理来说在病毒肆虐下的世界中应该很容易达成共识。可让人瞠目结舌的是，自疫情发生以来，在某些西方政客无节操下三滥的政治操作下，我们看到了越来越多的分歧，不少的牛鬼蛇神也伺机乱窜了出来。掩盖在所谓民主、自由、人权幌子下的西方霸权主义、新干涉主义、颜色革命，被政治化掐着喉咙嗜血狂吠的西方媒体，被媒体煽动下抬头的种族主义、仇外情绪、极端民族主义，被傲慢与偏见蒙蔽双眼的井底之蛙，口若蛇蝎的白眼狼等等等等，这些是《现形镜》里的恶与暗。


幸运的是，透过疫情，我们也深切地感受到了人间的善与光：医护工作者、社会各界人士金子般的心灵，温暖有力的驰援之手，象征着殊死搏斗后浴火重生希望的仙鹤，为逝者静默哀思的白菊，代表着饱满自信怒放的国花牡丹。


见日之光，天下大明。愿阳光所至之处，人类皆被赐予一双明辨善恶的慧眼。


中国加油，北京加油，世界加油！

小声明：以上即是这幅作品中文解析的正文。以下文字我是先撰写了英文部分，然后再提要译出中文部分的，原因如下：


自疫情爆发以来，某些西方政客和媒体为了掩盖自己的无能和险恶动机而大肆编造关于我国的谎言。他们操纵舆论，散播政治病毒，煽动对中国和中国人民的种族仇恨。当时我写下以下段落的初衷就是为了发表在国外的社交平台上，用以抨击他们的种种丑恶行径。因为面对的是国外的读者，所以在遣词及内容上，会和中文解析有些许不同。举个例子，我们中国人都懂得白菊花的寓意，但对于不了解中华文化的外国读者，我就需要明确解释 “如果你恰巧熟悉中国文化，你会对这幅作品有更深一层的理解。比如说，在中国，白菊花代表着对逝者的哀悼。”


这段英文字句中的观点，我认为还是有必要译出来以完善这幅画的整体释义。


1.作为一名中国艺术人，这场疫情彻底改变了我的世界观。或许我们的世界一直都是这样的混乱和分裂，过去的我大概是太天真了才会看不到其中的真相。《现形镜》就是一幅在我个人这样全新的视角下被创作出来的作品。对我而言，新型冠状病毒就像一面魔镜，它揭示了一切事物的本质，善与恶，光明与黑暗，在这个艰难的时刻，它们都被映照得一清二楚。这幅作品某种程度上也像一个解谜游戏，如果你看得足够仔细，你会挖掘到非常多的细节。比如说，仙鹤象征什么？仙鹤额前的羽毛形状是哪家公司的logo?


2. 面对疫情，一个负责任政府的首要任务始终都应该是拯救生命，不是选举，不是股票，不是甩锅，不是操纵舆论，更不是干涉别国内政。


3.我们的世界有195个国家，某些西方国家并不代表全世界。同样的道理，西方文明也不是一种普世价值。因此，给一些西方政客和媒体的建议是，不要再以“民主”、“自由”、“人权”作为幌子，把你们肮脏的霸权主义、新干涉主义和颜色革命推向历史比你们长得多得多的其他文明。没有人需要你们的“说教”，请管好你们自己的分内事吧。

Revealing Mirror


As a Chinese artist, this pandemic has completely changed my perspective of our world. Perhaps our world has always been like this, I was just too naive to see the truth in the past. It's truly an eye opening experience to see how certain western politicians and media can continuously fabricate lies about my country. Targeting China, manipulating public opinion and inciting racial hatred against China and Chinese, all these just to cover their own incompetence, wow.


With this new perspective, I created this work “Revealing Mirror”. To me, COVID-19 is like a magic mirror that reveals the true nature of everything. Good and evil, brightness and darkness, they all emerge from this difficult time. “Revealing Mirror” is like a puzzle game, if you look closer you could always find new surprises. And if you happen to be familiar with Chinese culture, you will have an even deeper understanding of this work. An example, white chrysanthemums represent mourning for the deceased in China.


I’m not going to explain too much of this new creation, because the message is clear. However, I do have certain points to make through “Revealing Mirror”:


1.In a pandemic, the No.1 priority of a responsible government should always be saving lives, not election, stocks, shirking responsibility, manipulating public opinion, and definitely not interfering other countries’ internal affairs.


2.Our world has 195 countries; certain western countries don’t represent the whole world. For the same reason, western civilization is also not a universal value. So an advice for some western politicians and media, stop using “democracy”, “freedom”, “human rights” as a cover to push your dirty hegemonism, neo-interventionism and colour revolutions into other civilizations that might have a much longer history than yours. No one needs your “enthusiastic” “preaching”, respect that and mind your own business.


"China is a vast country with over 5000 years of history and a huge population. There is no manual to which we can refer in promoting reform and development, neither do we have any need for condescending instructors to lecture our people."

December 18, 2018, Xi Jinping's speech at the 40th Anniversary Conference on reform and opening up


3.We mankind is a community who has a shared future. A safe and promising future will only come when we closely work with each other. Racism, xenophobia, ultra-nationalism, unilateralism will only lead to catastrophic consequences.


Though the world we are living in right now is chaotic and divided, my wish for a safe, prosperous and peaceful future has never changed. World peace is not a myth or impossible, if people can put down their arrogance and prejudice, see each other as an equal, respect our differences and continue working with each other like brothers and sisters, we can achieve that.