“Hanabi” is an ongoing experimental project for two years which consist of both writing and photography around the theme of fireworks. For me, fireworks are beautiful in its most enigmatic way. How ephemeral yet how eternal; how unforgettable yet how repetitive. One fails to flee from the spectacle regardless. Threads of events in life are similar to the sprakling of the fire like a spoon of sugar.

《花火》是一个已持续两年的实验性项目，围绕烟花这一主题，由写作与摄影共同构成。对我而言，烟花之美在于它最难以捉摸的那一面。何其短暂，又何其永恒；何其难忘，又何其重复。无论如何，人都无法从这场奇观中逃离。生活中一桩桩事件的线索，就像火光的迸溅，如一勺糖。

Birds stopped

mid in the air.

Now it’s there,

at present,

intervals bring illusions and visions.

It is not there,

we could only guess

its next position,

its next juncture

and its next presence.

Like

a spoon of sugar sprinkled into

the boiling water,

hereon any moment of it

can not be dispensed.

Everything

in this world combines

into a large monad,

here isolation of the individuals

is merely hypothesis out of convenience.

Like

webs of the spiders,

connections of being spray out

intricately yet obediently,

adhering all their prey.

“Like a Spoon of Sugar” (poem)

by Xiangyin Gu

鸟儿停驻

在半空中。

此刻它在那里，

在当下，

间隙带来幻觉与幻象。

它不在那里，

我们只能猜测

它下一个位置，

它下一个节点

和它下一次的在场。

就像

一勺糖撒进

沸腾的水中，

从此它的任何一刻

都无法再被分离。

万物

在这世上结合

成一个巨大的单子，

在此，个体的孤立

不过是出于便利的假设。

就像

蜘蛛的网，

存在的联结向外喷散，

错综而又顺从，

粘住它们所有的猎物。

《如一勺糖》（诗）

Xiangyin Gu 作