礼物 The Gift 2013-2014

作为礼物,他给出了,但给出的没有“内容”,给出的同时(松开手的同时),礼物的所谓“内容”流逝和消散了。

“内容”很容易被估值,成为物品和商品。

给出的同时,也是开始了“不能给出”。这样的给予,同时也不是给予,也不是“不是给予”。

礼物给没有具体的受赠者。

因为它不能给到某个接受者手上,也没有某个谁在赠与。

它排除了互赠的可能,互赠是交换的一种形式。

所以,它是真正的礼物。 同时,礼物不再是那捧沙,那缕烟,而是与它们连成一个整体的天空和大地。

作为礼物,它无形,无量,无界。

蒋志 2014

As a gift, he gave it. Yet that which he gave has no ‘substance’ to speak of. When he gave it (when he loosened his hand), the so-called ‘substance’ of the gift slipped by and dissipated.

‘Substance’ is easily appraised, becoming an object and a product.

As it was given, it also began ‘to be unable to be given.’ This sort of giving is also not giving, as it is also not ‘not giving.’

The gift does not have a specific recipient. Because it cannot be given to any recipient, there is no one who is giving.

It excludes the possibility of reciprocity.

Reciprocity is a form of exchange.

As such, it is a true gift.

At the same time, the gift is no longer that handful of sand, that wisp of smoke; rather, it joins together with them to form a whole of sky and earth.

As a gift, it is formless, measureless, boundless.

Jiang Zhi 2014