缪晓春
手卷不适合于公共展览，却很适合于私人观赏，慢慢打开，细细观看。历代手卷中最出名者莫过于《清明上河图》。在一幅高25厘米、宽529厘米的长卷上将一个城市描述得如此全面详尽而生动，后世无人能出其右者。
我们已经无法再用这样的观察方式和描绘方式，用如此的细心和耐心来表现一个城市。或许也因为我们已经有了其他新的媒介和可能，这样的可能包括摄影、录相和计算机，如果用一种特殊的转机来拍摄，便能得到一个极长的画面，再经过后期电脑处理绘制和装裱后，我制作了一个手卷，能让我重又得到观赏手卷的乐趣。这样的手卷自然与传统手卷大相径庭，它没有那么宏观俯瞰，却很真实细致;它没有那么凝炼概括，以一挡十，却有可能做到面面俱到，卷帙浩繁，以百抵一。于是我下定决心，即使表现北京这样一个城市，也要做无数个手卷，以期能依稀比肩那一个曾让我无比感叹的手卷曾达到的全面详尽和生动。
Statement on Beijing hand scroll
Miao Xiaochun
Hand scrolls are not suitable for public exhibition, but they are very suitable for private viewing and appreciation: one can scroll it open slowly and enjoy every detail. The most famous hand scroll in history is obviously Qingming Festival Along the River. This long scroll of 25 cm in width and 529 cm in length depicts a city in a detailed and vivid manner. No hand scrolls can surpass this achievement.
There is no way that we can use this way of observation and depiction nowadays to represent a city; we don’t have that kind of scrutiny and patience anymore. Maybe it is because we have other new media and new possibilities; these possibilities include photographs, videos and computers. If I take a picture with a special round-shot camera, then I can get an extremely long image; after computer software processing and mounting, a scroll is made. This way I can have all the fun of enjoying hand scrolls again. This kind of hand scroll is obviously very different from traditional hand scrolls. It is not a macro overlooking view, yet it is very truthful and meticulous; it is not as concise and embracing that one scene can represent many aspects of our lives, but it is able to cover all aspects that at least 100 scenes can represent 1 perspective. Therefore, I’m determined to make a vast and voluminous work with countless scrolls to represent a city like Beijing in order to compare with Qingming Festival Along the River in a respectful way because it fascinates me with its completeness and vividness.
【编辑：小红】
