Huang Rui
Cloud and the moon 7 (Silver Beach series), 2025
Oil on canvas
73 x 57 cm
Silver Sand Beach Silver Sand Beach is a real beach, a landscape composed of countless tiny, off-white pebbles. Silver Sand Beach is both sand and stone; it is also water—waves,...
Silver Sand Beach
Silver Sand Beach is a real beach, a landscape composed of countless tiny, off-white pebbles.
Silver Sand Beach is both sand and stone; it is also water—waves, rivers, and the sea. It is light—the morning glow, the clouds, a bright moon, and twinkling stars. Because of this, it appears white, gray, dark black, and sometimes a shade of blue like a sparrow’s tail.
I first remembered Silver Sand Beach twenty-five years ago, in the year 2000, when I made a plan to visit all the karesansui (dry landscape gardens) in Kyoto. During the day, I observed many rock and gravel gardens, imagining tranquility and the gradual distancing of nature, in contrast to the turbulence of life. My plan was never realized—of course, it was impossible to achieve. Time and again, I found myself returning to the rock garden of Ryoan-ji and the Silver Sand Beach of Ginkaku-ji.
The rock garden evokes endless imagination, perhaps reminiscent of the poetry of Li Bai and Su Dongpo, or the dramatic lines of Shakespeare. Silver Sand Beach, on the other hand, seems to have only one structural relationship: the moon and the calm, unshaken beach—a dialogue of forms. I visited it in the morning and at dusk, letting time and thoughts dissolve into the ripples of its surface, until all my anxieties faded away.
A special blessing came on a certain night afterward. By chance, I was able to visit Silver Sand Beach in the evening. Though I was permitted to stay for only a few minutes, that moment became an indelible memory, lasting for the next twenty years.
Huang Rui, 2025.1.10.
銀沙灘
銀沙灘是真的沙灘，它們是一顆一顆完整的亞白色小石頭組成的風景。
銀沙灘既是沙，又是石；也是水，水浪，河流和大海；是光，晨曦和雲層，一輪明月和閃爍的星星，因此呈現白色、灰色、暗黑、雀尾一樣的蘭色。
我記住銀沙灘是25年前，2000年，我確定一個計劃，要走遍全京都的枯山水。我在白天觀看許多石頭和石子做成的枯山水，幻想平靜和漸次遠離的自然，動盪不安的人生。我的計劃沒能實現，當然無法實現——我一次一次返回龍安寺的石庭，銀閣寺的銀沙灘。
石庭帶給人的想像太豐富了，我想有可能是李白，蘇東坡的詩歌，莎士比亞的戲劇台詞。銀沙灘大概只有一個結構關係：月亮與波瀾不驚的沙灘，它是造型上的對話。我在早晨，黃昏的時候訪問了它，讓時光和思緒釋放在它的波紋上，我所有的不安都隱去了。
一個特別的恩賜是之後的一個夜晚，我有幸晚間光臨銀沙灘，雖然我被允許停留僅數分鐘，但就此刻入了20年來的記憶。
想用文字來形容它的美麗不夠用了，從2019年開始，我把它放入我的繪畫主題，終於與銀沙灘面對面說話了。
黃銳2025.1.10.
Silver Sand Beach is a real beach, a landscape composed of countless tiny, off-white pebbles.
Silver Sand Beach is both sand and stone; it is also water—waves, rivers, and the sea. It is light—the morning glow, the clouds, a bright moon, and twinkling stars. Because of this, it appears white, gray, dark black, and sometimes a shade of blue like a sparrow’s tail.
I first remembered Silver Sand Beach twenty-five years ago, in the year 2000, when I made a plan to visit all the karesansui (dry landscape gardens) in Kyoto. During the day, I observed many rock and gravel gardens, imagining tranquility and the gradual distancing of nature, in contrast to the turbulence of life. My plan was never realized—of course, it was impossible to achieve. Time and again, I found myself returning to the rock garden of Ryoan-ji and the Silver Sand Beach of Ginkaku-ji.
The rock garden evokes endless imagination, perhaps reminiscent of the poetry of Li Bai and Su Dongpo, or the dramatic lines of Shakespeare. Silver Sand Beach, on the other hand, seems to have only one structural relationship: the moon and the calm, unshaken beach—a dialogue of forms. I visited it in the morning and at dusk, letting time and thoughts dissolve into the ripples of its surface, until all my anxieties faded away.
A special blessing came on a certain night afterward. By chance, I was able to visit Silver Sand Beach in the evening. Though I was permitted to stay for only a few minutes, that moment became an indelible memory, lasting for the next twenty years.
Huang Rui, 2025.1.10.
銀沙灘
銀沙灘是真的沙灘，它們是一顆一顆完整的亞白色小石頭組成的風景。
銀沙灘既是沙，又是石；也是水，水浪，河流和大海；是光，晨曦和雲層，一輪明月和閃爍的星星，因此呈現白色、灰色、暗黑、雀尾一樣的蘭色。
我記住銀沙灘是25年前，2000年，我確定一個計劃，要走遍全京都的枯山水。我在白天觀看許多石頭和石子做成的枯山水，幻想平靜和漸次遠離的自然，動盪不安的人生。我的計劃沒能實現，當然無法實現——我一次一次返回龍安寺的石庭，銀閣寺的銀沙灘。
石庭帶給人的想像太豐富了，我想有可能是李白，蘇東坡的詩歌，莎士比亞的戲劇台詞。銀沙灘大概只有一個結構關係：月亮與波瀾不驚的沙灘，它是造型上的對話。我在早晨，黃昏的時候訪問了它，讓時光和思緒釋放在它的波紋上，我所有的不安都隱去了。
一個特別的恩賜是之後的一個夜晚，我有幸晚間光臨銀沙灘，雖然我被允許停留僅數分鐘，但就此刻入了20年來的記憶。
想用文字來形容它的美麗不夠用了，從2019年開始，我把它放入我的繪畫主題，終於與銀沙灘面對面說話了。
黃銳2025.1.10.