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2007年10月16日午时三分,结婚8年的小江(李金洋)终于有了一直梦想的孩子,虽然他想要个男孩,但可爱的女孩降临时,他说:“不论男孩、女孩,精品才好”。
女孩一天一天在姥姥家长大,小江既难舍又无奈,面对真实的生活,必须承受要承受的所有,为人父的他唯一能做的就是和女儿相处时,给她讲她并听不懂的故事,他随手在废纸张的空白处给女儿画着他讲的故事“鹅、鹅、鹅,曲项向天歌白毛浮绿水红掌拨青波”……
院儿是小江的媳妇,九年前一直从事绘画,当夫妻二人双双来到北京加入北漂一族时,做为中医大夫的小江和院儿便注定了远离过去,为了能活下来,他们选择了在公司做职员,8年后,孩子终于出生了,院儿决定重归梦途,2008年2月将城里的房子出租移居宋庄小堡村,院儿为了能够顺利过度到梦途、尽到为人母的责任、保证家庭的生存持续,终日游离于姥姥家、宋庄、谋生的工作岗位之间。
小江来京多年心里一直有个解不开的自怨,常年患病的父母非常需要他守在身边,但他却在外乡,时值女儿宝贝降临之际,老父亲病危,他游离在父亲、女儿之间。
小江用画给女儿讲着只有小江自己能听懂的故事,画不久前病故的爷爷、画一家人为伴在泳池前静坐、画邻家鸭狗嬉戏、画带女儿游莲花园、画院儿躺抱着生病的孩子、画女儿过百岁、画故乡思念孙女的孤独的奶奶、画女儿学步、画自己在故乡远离女儿的思念……
小江不知道绘画是怎么回事,但他觉得只有画出来才讲透了自己的心。
院儿决定在宋庄小堡村开个画廊作为献给“女儿”一周岁的礼物,画廊里面装满爸爸为女儿讲的女儿听不懂却看得懂的故事。
“伯·铂画廊”用女儿名字中的“博”为谐音,作为对女儿最美好的祝福。
院儿
2008年9月29日11:19
Preamble
At 12:03, October 16, 2007, Li Jinyang, his nickname Xiao Jiang, had a long dreamt-of baby eight years after he got married. Although it is not a boy as he was anxious for, “Boy or girl, quality is more important”, said he, when his lovely daughter was born.
His daughter lives with her grandma, who takes care of her. He cannot help but leave her to her grandma, for he has to face and subject himself to the hard life. When staying with her daughter, he as a father does nothing but tells tales that are incomprehensible for her age. His story goes like “Goose, Goose, Goose, Hi! /You with a long-crooked neck sing to the sky/Floating on green water by feathers in white/With red-webbed feet stirring in blue dye”, while he is painting on a piece of waste paper according to the story.
Yuan’er, Xiao Jiang’s wife, had been a painter nine years before they moved to Beijing to seek more opportunities. When residing in Beijing, Xiao Jiang, who used to be a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, and his wife, had to do office work for a living. Their daughter was born after their eighth wedding anniversary was celebrated. Then Yuan’er decided to pursue her artistic career dream. In February 2008, after letting out their apartment in the city, they moved to Xiaopu Village, Songzhuang Town. To realize her artistic dream, fulfill her duty as a mother and make a living, Yuan’er always finds herself on the way to her mother’s home, Songzhuang and her office.
Xiao Jiang always feels guilty, for he does not lives in his hometown to attend to his parents with poor health. Unfortunately, when his daughter was born, his father was critically ill. In those days, his heart was occupied by his father and daughter.
Xiao Jiang tells stories to her daughter by painting, which may be comprehensible to nobody but Xiao Jiang himself. In his paintings, he depicts his grandfather who died recently, his family taking rest in front of a swimming pool, his neighbor’s ducks and dogs playing together, his daughter at Lotus Flower Park, or in Yuan’er’s arms when she was ill, or at her own one hundredth birthday, or learning walk, his lonely mother missing her granddaughter in his hometown, himself missing his daughter when he was in hometown far away from his daughter…
Xiao Jiang makes paintings without deliberate purpose but telling what he really wants to express.
Yuan’er decided to open an art gallery as a gift to celebrate their daughter’s first birthday. Displayed in the art gallery are paintings which tell stories that are incomprehensible to her daughter, audibly other than visibly.
The gallery was named Only BSBO Gallery (“伯·铂画廊”) . “伯” and “博” share the same pronunciation. This name is chosen deliberately to express their best wishes to their daughter.
Yuan’er
At 11:19 a.m. September 28, 2008