当奋斗的激情耗尽，现实生活显露出无情而冰冷的面孔。钢筋混凝土阻隔着人与自然的呼吸。

　　进入老年期的我的父母，在浑然不觉中已经处于一种被搁浅的境地，疾病缠身的父母再也无力与坚硬的现实抗衡，疾病彻底摧毁了他们行动的自由，生命中也已经绝少可以唤起快乐的理由和感觉，他们不得不再无奈中消磨这写难熬的时光。

　　养儿防老这个流传已久的口头禅，事实上在今天也成了难以兑现的一句空话！我无法替代他们承受生命中的那些最深重的苦难。充其量只是给他们一些有限的安慰和照料，对于根本上已是积重难返的生存问题，我却无能为力。他们的生存困难事如此的实实在在，可以触摸但不可逾越。

　　父母石以死亡作为命运浩劫的终结，他们强行挺立在死亡的边缘，打起精神，以勉强的直立，支撑着生命的尊严。也支撑着这些无力的图片。

　　在生存危机面前一切困扰我的所谓艺术问题都黯然失色，那些脆弱的艺术梦想受到了前所未有的鞭鞑。与此同时，我也感到好像预支了自己未来的晚年景象。

宋永平

　　Once the passion of struggle is exhausted, real life reveals its cold and passionless goals. Reinforced concrete blocks any interaction between man and nature. My parents, entering old age, are unknowingly stranded. Bound by disease, they have no power to hold up to hard reality . Disease has thoroughly

　　Destroyed their freedom to move .  Life has already obliterated their feelings of and reasons for happiness ,  and they cannot but while away their remaining tine, difficult as it is to endure.

　　The idea of  'raising children to prevent old age'is a saying that has been passed down for ages, and has today become an empty phrase , impossible to cash in on. L have no way of taking my parents  place in experiencing some of most difficult things they encounter . All l can do is give them some limited comfort and care . As for the fundamental questions of survival, l have no power, their problems of survival are real and true; one can feel it but cannot cross over and them.

　　My parents see death as great calamity of fate. They force themselves to stand up straight on the verge of death, to find a spirit they can use to keep themselves going, to maintain some dignity of life. They supported these powerless photographs.

　　Facing a crisis of survival, all of the so-called artistic problems surrounding me disappear, and my weak artistic dreams come up against a harsh lashing. At the same time, l also feel like l have already seen myself in old age.

Song yongping

作者：宋永平