我国神话中的混沌意象，常凝结于盘古开天辟地的磅礴叙事。三国徐整于《三五历纪》中写道：  “天地浑沌如鸡子，盘古生其中。”此后清浊分离，天地始分，万象萌生——这混沌，并非虚无，而是万物未形之前蕴含的浑然元气。

本系列以“混沌之初”为题，正是借天地初开、清浊将分未分之刻，来观照一方荷塘的晨昏与醒睡。这里的混沌，是水墨氤氲、光影朦胧的池塘；是戌亥之交，暗夜将尽、天光将来的那一隙时间；也是荷在淤泥清涟之间，从容绽开的那一缕精神。

荷，宛若立于水天之间的盘古。根扎于浊泥，花亭于清波，叶舒展于光影之间，仿佛在呼吸中默默执行着一种分离与净化——从混沌里，生长出清澈；从暗寂中，绽放出明艳。

因而在此系列中，我试图呈现的并非荷之形态，而是荷与自然间一种生动的共鸣与映照。荷叶层层，隐现于晨雾；水光漾漾，融绿于天影。偶有点红初露，如潜藏之生机悄然破界。风动叶摇，光移影转， 一切仿佛仍处于混沌初开的动态之中，静谧中涌动着无穷生命力。

In the Beginning of Chaos

The imagery of chaos in Chinese mythology is often embodied in the majestic narrative of Pangu separating heaven and earth. As recorded by Xu Zheng of the Three Kingdoms period in San Wu Li Ji, "Heaven and earth were chaotic like a chicken's egg, and Pangu was born within it." Then clarity and turbidity parted, heaven and earth began to divide, and all things came into being—this chaos is not emptiness, but the primal energy contained before all forms took shape.

This series, titled In the Beginning of Chaos, borrows the moment when heaven and earth first opened, when clarity and turbidity were about to part yet still merged, to contemplate the dawn and dusk, the waking and sleeping, of a lotus pond. Here, chaos is the pond veiled in ink-wash mists and soft, hazy light; it is the sliver of time between Xu and Hai, when darkness fades and daylight approaches; it is also the spirit with which the lotus blooms calmly between mud and clear water.

The lotus resembles Pangu standing between water and sky. Its roots sink into turbid mud, its flowers rise above clear ripples, and its leaves stretch into the interplay of light and shadow—as if, in its very breath, it silently performs a work of separation and purification: from chaos grows clarity; from darkness blooms brightness.

Thus, in this series, I seek to portray not the form of the lotus, but a vivid resonance and reflection between the lotus and nature. Layer upon layer of lotus leaves appear and disappear in the morning mist; water shimmers, blending green into the sky's reflection. Occasionally, a hint of red emerges, like hidden vitality quietly breaking through. Leaves sway in the wind, light shifts, shadows turn—everything seems to remain in the dynamic state of chaos just beginning to unfold, where stillness pulses with boundless life.