The Ganges River Sand （Gangā-Nadī-Vālukā）
恒河之沙
Living, Reborn, Samsara.
入世、重生、轮回。
The Ganges River Sand
The first shot stage of the series was in December 2013, which was my beginning of photography also. This work was edited revised in 2024.
The series begins with The Sand – that is, people who come into the world. Subsequently, people pray for inner rebirth in the practice of faith through their local culture of religion and the scenes of life. It is ritualistic and abstract. Relying on the river of gods in their minds, in the process of continuous unfolding of concrete rituals, it is transformed into a kind of spiritual sustenance, which is also connection of the chapter - The Ganges, and it ends there.
Hopefully, you may linger for a second longer as you flip through the last picture of the series (XXV - The End - At a Glance), which is a kind of flash back. If you review the first picture (I - The Sand I), please note that there are boys and an old lady in yellow in it, and they are facing two different directions. It is how the whole story begins.
The colours from fire are hidden in the work - in the range from yellow to red - either orange or red. It is a clue. In addition, green and purple are also metaphors.
The Ganges River Sand series is the main theme of the work in a positive sense. In a broader sense, it is not just within the borders of India.
Zhong Qi, 2024
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作品最早拍摄于2013年12月，这是我开始摄影的最初阶段。编辑修订于2024年。
系列从恒河之沙中的沙（The Sand）开始叙述。沙——即入世——在当地的宗教文化和在生活场景，众生在信仰活动中祈求内心的重生。这种重生带有仪式化，又属于抽象意义。依托于他们心目中的神灵之河，在不断展开具象的仪式化过程中，转化为一种灵魂上的寄托，这也是恒河（The Ganges）章节的衔接并由此而结束。
希望观众在翻阅至最后一张（XXV - The End - At a Glance）的闪回，能多对视一秒。如果再次回看第一张（I - The Sand I），希望能理解我为什么会在整部系列的开头就出现了小孩和老人，以及他们在画面中出现的交叉路径的暗喻。
颜色是这部作品的暗线——介于从黄到红的区间色段——或偏橙色，或偏红色，这来自火的颜色。除此之外，绿色和紫色也各有暗喻。
恒河之沙（The Ganges River Sand）系列的作品主旨是积极意义的处世态度，泛意上不只是局限在印度。
钟麒，2024
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