实在不知我从何处来，将往何处去。但我知道有许多物质天天在我身体里进进出出，H2O-水是其中之一。它在进入我躯体之前曾出入过无数的植物、动物和人物；从我身体排出之后，它又会继续出入于无数的植物、动物和人物。我是曾经的容器之一，是流经的地点之一。水从海洋到天空、从天空到大地，从远古到现在、从现在到未来，循环往复，从无停息。它是否记录和传递着生命的源头和归宿的某些信息？所有的生命也因它而息息相关吗？它们会因此而惺惺相惜吗？像水一样柔弱易逝、变幻无常的生命，是否也会像水一样循环往复呢？那消逝了的生命会像蒸发了的水滴一样，还会在某个地方凝结，变成雨、雪、霜而重回大地吗？
　　相对于所有生命的历史，艺术史实在短得微不足道；但相对于个体生命，艺术史已相当的长。 我从这不长不短的艺术史中撷取了数幅与水相关又最能触动我心灵的作品，用最新的数码方式加以演绎，试图去描述水在生命间的宏大链接。 我用自己的电脑三维形象置换了所有这些画中的几百上千个人物，“新陈代谢”，一如流入我躯体的水：我用这种方式“流入”到另一个时代的某件作品中，从而“生成”了一个既与之血肉相连又焕然一新的艺术作品。
　　About H2O-A Study of Art History
　　Miao Xiaochun
　　I really don’t know where I was from or where I will go, but I know many substances go into and out of my body every day, among which is water-H2O. Before entering my body, it has gone through numerous living things: plants, animals, and human beings; and it will again go through numerous plants, animals and human beings after being released from my body. I am just one of the containers holding it temporarily, or one of the points it flows by. Water has been recycling through oceans, the sky, and the land. The process has begun ever since remote ages, continues to the present, and will continue into future, never stopping, repeating forever in an endless way. Does it carry and deliver certain information about the source and destination of life? All forms of life and water vitally interrelate with each other? Do they thus show compassion and concern for each other? Is constantly changing life, which is delicate and subtle like water, recycling endlessly as water does? Will vanished life condense again at some other place and return to earth just like evaporated water drops condensing into rain, snow, or frost?
　　Compared with the history of all forms of life, the history of art is too short to be worth mentioning; but compared with individual life, the history of art is fairly long. Selecting from the long as well as short  history of art several works involving water which touch me to the heart, I try to depict through latest digital technology the grand inter-linkage of life played by water. The thousands of characters in these works have been replaced by a three dimensional model of my own image created with computer, a kind of “metabolism”—just like water flowing into my body： in this way,  I have “flowed” into different works of other times and have “generated” entirely new art works which have blood and flesh relations with the original ones.

作者：缪晓春