Pieces by Jingmu Fu
Photography July 19 2024
Intro
Jingmu captures the reflections on a memorable summer, blending nature's beauty with personal memories. Each piece invites the readers to feel the timeless magic of summer days and nights.
From the Artist
“The dry, expectant soggy afternoon was the smoothest asides about the summer, the first time I'd spent much of it alone, and the most familiar sight was lying in bed staring out the window. The sun was bright on a sunny day, and where I was in the north, the sky was usually cloudless and blue for perhaps the most saturated months of the year. It often rained heavily in the afternoon, and the wind blew up outside the Windows, and the rain soon soaked all the ground, and the air quickly spread the steam that had not had time to evaporate, mixed with the smell of soil.”
From the Artist
“There is only one night when I open a whole window in the heavy rain, the whole world is lit up in a flash of lightning, and the roar of thunder makes the whole summer exceptionally calm, and all my fantasies and thoughts are sucked into such a night. This is the 26th summer of my life.
Hermann Hesse wrote in The Last Summer of Klingsor that "there was but one great summer in my life, and after that the moon fell." I used every summer after that to imitate the moon, I envy its only, and love its tenderness."
Outro
Jingmu told DART: “Without having experienced all the summers, I could not judge which moment I could no longer reach, and if there was, I would still overturn it one day, and if I had to explain this hesitation, I would explain it by age. If the age is too conventional, just use space to explain, in the space of the universe, everything is always equal lying there, and we jump from one point to another point, the formation of the arc of a short life, in this case, a moment in a summer, eventually we also have a way to return there, but the memory, will always superposition......”