自然觀察者——MICHAEL CHERNEY
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我既愛攝影又愛畫畫，因此很被Michael Cherney的作品吸引，他擅長用攝影留住瞬間，再用水墨呈現作品，宜古宜今，宜中宜西，很有趣味。
五峰 Five Peaks
秋麥 Michael Cherney
攝影墨本，宣紙；一組五幅掛軸
Photography,ink on Xuan paper.
Set of 5 hanging scrolls
每個愛攝影的人都有體會，從取景器望出去的世界是有那麼一點不同的，眼睛看東西的方式有了變化，會更敏銳，更細微，甚至更延伸。這種延伸不僅僅是一種具象的視覺延伸，更是一種抽象的時空延伸，是歷史視角的開啟。
「彷彿在一條長長的道路上，鋪設一塊塊石材。」 Michael如是描述每一次拍攝。
山海圖#7 Map of Mountains and Seas #7
秋麥 Michael Cherney
攝影墨本，三椏皮紙
Photographic print on mitsumata paper
中國在世界上是特別的，因為他保有一個持續的、從未被打斷的藝術傳統，這個傳統一直追溯到古代。當下中國正在經歷著巨大的變遷，用攝影來捕捉這個歷史時刻實為珍貴。
作為一名美國人，Michael到中國充滿歷史和文化記憶的地方去旅行拍攝，去直接體驗，獲取知識，超越自身的時代去回望歷史，收穫更全面的對比和更全面的認識。
透視 #1 Perspectives #1
張洪 / 秋麥 Arnold Chang/Michael Cherney
攝影、水墨紙本
Ink painting and photographic print on paper
他的作品最終的形成有幾個因素，首先是季節和天氣，然後是相機，所有的作品都是用膠片拍攝的，通常都是35毫米的膠片里的一個小局部被放大，膠片的顆粒感成為作品美感的一個重要部分。
粗顆粒、不確定的視角、細節的缺少、參照物的缺失，共同造就了畫面里的抽象感。最後，作品被列印在用於傳統水墨創作的宣紙上，墨被宣紙吸收了一些，失去了少許的細節與活力，但對於某些主題而言，作品反而變得更有分量。
透視 #2 Perspectives #2
張洪 / 秋麥 Arnold Chang/Michael Cherney
攝影、水墨紙本
Ink painting and photographic print on paper
在劉長卿詩作的最後，他說「相對亦忘言」，在最後面對面的時候，已無需語言，有人作詩舞墨，而他讓大自然、光和相機來替他發言，攝影讓他更多地成為一個觀察者，而非藝術創作的中心。
輞川圖 Wangchuan
張洪 / 秋麥 Arnold Chang/Michael Cherney
攝影、水墨紙本
Ink painting and photographic print on paper
莊子說：無名為屍，無為謀府，無為事任，無為知主。心靈應像明鏡，靜觀天地，不將不迎，應而不藏。除了積極創造，還可以張開懷抱，接受大自然給予的一切，那麼，攝影就會映現一個更忠實於自然的視野，是為這個入世人間里最為出世的藝術之道。
2018年5月記於香港大學美術博物館
Nature Observer——Michael Cherney
I love photograpy and painting. Michael Cherney, who combines the use of camera to capture themoments and the painting skills to display his final works,has amazed me greatly. His works have the intriguing qualities of both old and new, oriental and western.
I suppose every photography aficionado has this same experience --- the world observed through a camera viewfinder is different from the real. Their eyes seem to become more sensitive, detail-oriented and even more extensive. The kind of extension is not just visual, but more like an abstract broadening of time and space, it is like opening up the historical viewpoint.
"I feel like I"m laying stones after stones on a long stretch of road." Michael describes his every camera shot.
China is unique because she has a continual and uninterrupted art traditions, which can betraced way back into the old times.China is undergoing a time of tremendous changes, capturing historical moments with a camera will retain precious memories.
As an American, Michael shoota his photos at places that has great cultural and historical heritages, thus gaining experiences as well as understanding, traveling back in time to understand the country"s history through comprehensive contrast and knowledge.
His completed works have a few successful factors, firstly season and weather, followed by camera. All the pictures are shot through the use of films, then a local area within the 35mm film is magnified. The grainy touch of the the film can be a main factor of their fine qualities.
The combination of coarse grains,non-predetermined angles, lack of details and absence of contrasting objects has accomplished the abstractedness of the view.
To finalize his works, he then prints the pictures on Xuan paper with traditional ink. When some of the ink gets soaked into the paper and cause the loss of some details and vitality, the final works nevertheless become more breathtaking for certain type of scenes.
In his poem, Liu Changqing said, "When we are together, we become speechless. "When face his own works, words are just powerless. Instead of using poems and paintings, Michael uses nature, light and his camera to speak for himself.Photography has made him an observer, rather than the focus of his own artistic creation.
Zhuangzi said long time ago, " Nothing can trap your heart, nothing can degenerate your heart,nothing can entangle your heart, nothing can dominate your heart. " Our heart should be like a clear mirror, reflecting the heavens and the earth,neither pushing them away or welcoming them in, hiding nothing.
Aside from active creativity, we can embrace all that natures has to offer. Only then can a photographer find a view that is more close to the nature outlook, making this art a out-of-this-world experience that is within this world.
Museum of Arts,
The University of Hong Kong.
May of 2018.
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