暗香

一图一世界，细胞会说话。

常看常新，观图悟道。

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摄影 / 撰文：李铁军

Photomicrography: Li Tiejun

暗香
软骨组织切片，X200，明视野+偏振光，2019

Faint fragrance
Cartilage, Tissue section, X200, Light field + polarized light, 2019

一自飘零去远，几误了、灯前深约。纵到此、归未得，几曾忘却。

——摘自[宋]张炎《暗香·羽音辽邈》

张炎是南宋最后一位著名词人，为宋朝勋贵之后。他前半生居于临安，生活优裕，而宋亡以后家道中落，晚年漂泊落拓。他深受宋末雅词一派的艺术滋养，其词以“清空”“骚雅”为特征。这几句摘自他的《暗香·羽音辽邈》，与这幅取名“暗香”的显微影像有几处默默的勾连。此处说花却不见花，清空之文笔，紫蓝之色调，勾勒出追怀往昔、悲凉落魄的超远意境。

Once drifting away like falling petals, I almost missed, missed the date we made in the night light. Even return here now, going back seems no avail, but how it could be forgotten.
From Zhang Yan (Song Dynasty)
Distant Music-to the Tune of An Xiang

Zhang Yan was the last well-known poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. Being a descendant of an honored family in the Song Dynasty, he lived in Lin’an for the first half of his life with luxury. But after the demise of the Song Dynasty, his family fortune declined, and he led a wandering life in poverty in his later years. He deeply embodies the artistic nourishment of the poems at the end of the Song Dynasty, and his work was characterized by “empty” and “elegance”. These quoted lines are from the ending of his poem “Distant Music-to the Tune of An Xiang”, An Xiang means faint fragrance, and there are several mimicking links with this microscopic image also named “Faint fragrance”. Here, it describes flowers without mentioning flowers. The empty brush touch and purple blue color conveys an ultra-distant artistic conception of reminiscence of the past, sadness and desolation.

摘自《生命如诗如歌：显微镜下的人生四季》

From Life, A Poem, A Song, Four Seasons of Life under the Microscope