水, 是世间万物的本源;河流, 生生不息，是生命之旅的写照。有谁的生命可以比河流的奔流还要久远?有谁的心脏可以盛得下这千年不变的温热作万古依然的流淌?是不是要站在更高的山巅俯瞰，才能看见那河流跨越千年的时光，历经沧桑,引渡众生的命运。生命的悲欢离合随命运的河流涨落，每个人都有停不下的悲欣交集，数不尽的日夜春秋都消散荡漾在这记忆的河里，绵远悠长……

　　碧如丝绸般的绿，优雅温暖的琥珀色，清新淡定的紫，忧伤沉静的蓝色，深不可知的浑厚的黑，灿烂火热的红，以及闪耀着令人亢奋的金色，都在我眼前轻灵自由地闪动，这就是我记忆中河流的色彩。

　　生命中有两条大河，一直陪伴着、激励着我：一条是童年时故乡的母亲河——漳江，一条是我现在生活着的这个城市的母亲河——闽江。漳江边，留下我无数童年天真的梦想和无忧无虑的欢声笑语;闽江边，则洒落下我二十几年来求艺路上艰辛与喜悦参和的汗水。生命中的这两条河，虽没有其他著名大河的恢宏，但却都给了我无穷尽的激情、慰藉与力量。这两条河，自然、热烈、沸腾却又悠然柔静，不怪异离奇，不扑朔迷离，而是流畅明快，如斑斓阳光在闪烁。天光与水波，舒展与奔放，五彩交融的混沌，在扩张，在飞扬，在飘逸。透过这似梦似真的河流，我更深切地感受生活，超越生命中的一切痛苦。一切无边无际的自由梦想和憧憬，都会在河面泛起的波光中找到心灵的回应。这一切让我领悟到艺术的精神总是游离于风景之上，诚如古代哲人庄子所说：“天地有大美而不言”，老子所说“大音希声，大象无形”，这是美学思考和哲学思考在最根本问题上达到的交融，“美”“声”“形”都是超越感官的。驻足河边，我总想借助那季节变幻中的流光溢彩，来折射所悟到的人性的光辉和人生的态度，使内心的激荡与沉静能通过意象或抽象的手法时隐时现、若即若离于印象中那一道道的波光闪烁间，使心灵的想象得以印证, 让艺术的精神生生不息……

　　岁月，是一曲古老永恒的歌，每个人都在这生命的旅程中谱写着属于自己的歌谣，或激昂，或辽阔，或悲壮，或华丽。而生命赐予我的是一把独特的曼妙无比的画笔，让我能幸运地以一件件不同的作品记录下来时的路，不管阳光明媚，或是冷月清秋，都一一化作片片闪烁着特殊光泽的笔触，在记忆的深处，或深或浅，或虚或实，或明或暗，时断时续，在每一个不经意间或是深情的追忆中，飘荡浮现于脑海中，无际无涯……

　　学习漆画至今已有20年，期间因兴趣广泛涉猎绘画的领域较广，尝遍了各种画种的画法和各种媒介的语言，而大漆真正让自己着迷，皆因其所具有的千变万化的丰富表现力，在这个探索的漫漫过程中，历尽艰辛至今也已十五载。漆画艺术是一门综合运用各种不同质感材料的艺术创作，并且带着很鲜明的东方韵味和民族文化特征，漆是很东方的、很中国的，从事漆画这门艺术的作者应有这种东方文化的敬仰和自信。

　　十五年的光阴在人的一生中不算漫长，所以也无关时间的宏大主题，但对于漆画这个既古老而又年轻的画种而言，对于一个虔诚的艺术追随者而言，十五个春夏秋冬在生命的岁月长河中却绝对是一段黄金的岁月，而能一次次走进岁月的最深处：与漆对话，用漆劳作，为漆坚守，以漆修道，更是一段难忘的留金岁月!

　　With Time Comes Golden Memory

　　— An Eternal Song

　　- TangZhiyi

　　Water, as the origin of all things in the world; rivers, with its endless movement, is the portrayal of life’s journey. Who can live even longer than the rushing river? Who has the heart can be filled with the fluxes of this never-changing warmth? Do we have to stand on a higher hilltop to be able to overlook the river that has spanned for thousands of years; that have seen and carried the vicissitudes and human fate. Joys and sorrows of life ebbing and flowing with the river of fate; everybody has to live with the unstoppable alterations of sadness and happiness. Countless days and nights, springs and autumns have rippled away in the river of memories, stretching forward… …

　　The jade-like silky green, the elegant warm amber, the fresh peaceful purple, the quiet melancholy blue, the deep mysterious black, the brilliant fiery red and the shining exciting golden, are all flashing before my eyes like brisk lively nymphs. This is what the colors are of the river in my memory.

　　There are two great rivers in my life that has accompanied and inspired me: one is the mother river of my childhood hometown - the Zhangjiang River, the other is the mother river of my current residence city - the Minjiang River. Alongside the Zhangjiang River leaves the countless innocent childhood dreams and carefree laughter; Beside Minjiang is my fifteen years of perspirations mixed with hardships and joy in the course of my pursuit for art. These two rivers in my life, although they might not be as grand as other famous rivers, but what they gave me is the endless passion, comfort and strength. These two rivers, with their natural, warm, ever-running yet soft and serene quality, are not odd, not weird, not strange, and not confusing, but forever smooth and crisp, as gorgeous sparkling sunshine. Sky lights and water waves, stretching and passionate, form together a colorful blend of chaos, expanding, flying and flowing. Through this surreal yet real river I can feel stronger about living, beyond all the pains in life. All the free boundless dreams and visions can all find the soulful response in the waves above the river. All this made me realize that the spirit of art is always something drifted above the landscape, just as what China’s ancient philosopher Chuang Tzu said, “the Sky and the Earth have great a beauty but never tells.” Lao Tzu also says, “great music unheard and great elephant invisible”. This is the integration of aesthetic thoughts and philosophical reflections on the most fundamental issues, as “beauty”, “sound”, “shape” are all beyond the senses. Standing beside the river, I’ve always wanted to avail myself of the lights and colors from different seasons to convey the brilliance of humanity and attitude of living, so that my inner passion and peace can be vaguely depicted in an imagery or abstract manner, hidden amidst the shimmering surreal yet real sparkles. This is how the imagination of your soul can be delivered and how the spirit of art shall never cease… …

　　Time flows like an old timeless song. Each and every one of us is writing his or her own song through life's journey. Some of the songs are passionate; some magnanimous, or tragic, or glorious. The life I am having, however, has bestowed me a very unique graceful painting brush that enables me to be lucky enough to record my every step of the way with different art piece one after another. Be it a sunny day or a whisht autumn night; all are transformed into glistening touches of strokes that echo with part of your memory, deep memory or fresh memory, illusionary or real, with light or shade, on and off. Some memories often flash back in your mind all over again without you realizing it or when you are buried deep in remembrance, reminding you of the good or bad of the past… …

　　It has been 20 years since I first come to study lacquer painting. During these years my interest has also covered a broad range of other artistic field and I have tasted a great variety of painting styles of painting and a great variety of media languages, but at the end of the day, it is lacquer that truly fascinates me, all because of its rich capacity of variable expressiveness. But the long and tough process of exploration into the art of lacquer, to this day, has been at least 15 years. The art of lacquer is an artistic creation process that encompasses a group of different textures of materials, with very distinctive features of the oriental charm and national cultural imprint. Lacquer is something very oriental, very Chinese, so whoever engaging in the lacquer painting should possess ample admiration and confidence for this oriental culture.

　　Fifteen years of time, in a person's entire lifetime, cannot be counted as too long, so there does not involve the grand motif of time. But for lacquer painting, an ancient yet freshly-regained painting type, and as for a devout follower of art, fifteen occurrences of seasonal changes can definitely leave out a period of golden years in the river of time. And the as to the reason why you can you walk into the far depth of time again and again, is because of the enchanting dialogue with lacquer, is the work with lacquer, the commitment to lacquer, the cultivation of lacquer, all of which come down to an unforgettable spell of golden years!

作者：汤志义