我的亂碼們

打開面書，看到朋友們分享的圖片中講述如何查考「誰最關注你的動態」。人都是充滿好奇心的動物，任誰看到這圖也不免會真的去考證一番吧? 然後螢幕彈出擠滿網頁程式的數字及字母，密密麻麻的，可我不能從中看出一句有意義的語言。

為了增加遊戲的趣味，我決定猜想一下最關注我的那個人到底是誰。喔，原來是她。第二位：啊？原來他有這樣著緊我哦？然後念頭一下子閃過腦袋，期望的某個她也會出現嗎？我一直找一直找，都找不到她的蹤影。

唉。

我一邊慨嘆自己的傻氣，一邊定睛於螢幕上。那些看似亂拼一通的數字，原來全都代表著我所重視的人。523985748是我的好朋友；7583997376是我的男友；63526189487是我的家人；74632187478是我的舊同學……還有誰誰誰……

21世紀，原來人的身份就等於格式化的數字，你是誰？你就是一串亂碼。

符號對於現世代的人來說，已經遠比文字重要。因為有人說過：「語言的重要性在於能傳遞訊息。」我相信這個人的本意是中性的，是純綷在陳述事實而已。可是不免會有撟枉過正的：於是只是能負載訊息，就算是語言。這個符號，大眾都明白它的意義，就能用於日常生活中。=]就是笑；=0是驚訝；TT是哭了……

然後到現代，我們人類在電腦的眼中，亦不過是一堆數字而已。從來只有監犯才以數字代替名字。不錯呀，人類對電腦來說，亦只是一堆被它操控著的傻子。

喂。8548390874，你是誰？

開花

風吹散的稿紙   仍有我九月的悸動

那頁頁最美的風景   都成為今天活著的因由

或許是   沉默過得比生活好

所以你說   不用想天邊的鳥如何飛

正如別管我們要往哪走

決意不摔開的

最終要麼被握死    要麼一起睡進泥土

那紙要落在哪裡

又被誰讀出    我    所有的故事

故事的結局還未補上

沉默會清水一灑

然後    滿地花開

About Simon Go 's Artwork..

About the concept of Simon Go photo shooting:::

In the eyes of Simon Go, the value of photos, is not about what skill had been used, it is about the idea that people can reflect on, and also, aftertaste. It also witnessed the change in terms of his own photography.

"The "beautiful photo" and "good photo" are completely different things, "beautiful photo" will make you feel great by a glimpse glance and will make you think it is beautiful, skill used is high, but a few hours or a few days after you will lose the memory. But the "good photo" will be memorable and will recall the past repeatedly.I had an obsession that each photo should have their own Style, and was also very concerned about the comments of others, but since the start shooting "Orchestration - Hong Kong Old Shops'', I found that I does not require to be too obsessed, shooting is enjoyable .From having conversationa with the shop owners and employees , I can  shoot photograph that reflect more. "

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"I shot the old shop not because I want to nostalgic them, instead I want to express the emotion of the people who care about them. Photography is not just lift the digital camera and " Cha Cha Cha "for a few photos. When Simon Go shoot as a documentary photography, he believes that behind this type of photo, it  must have wanted to express the meaning of those photos.And the meaning should be inspiring, be educational and  can express social problems and also people. Photo must have something to inspire us.

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I believe photographers should leave space for people to tell the stories themselves and not dominate a scene, I kept this in mind when i was taking photos of cage homes and old shops.

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I believe that the 1989 "June Fourth Incident" influenced me more than I thought. I  was still studying in Polytechnic school. I believe that people who witnessed the incident will re-understanding their own. I am not referring to the shock of the event itself, but is the views and opinion that the incident bring to you .This view is  very simple,you just always need to care about the relationship between man and society. I reach out to the community,and began to photography , I am not going to put the community away from my photos . I never see my photography as an art form, all these years, I just want to record things happening in  somewhere Hong Kong in an particular era or a particular period. And the record is not only a pure direct record (Straight Record), also includes my own opinion of the time and the moment.

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Look at my shooting target, everyone's life is very difficult, and can also adhere to live with dignity, to bring the important message: it does not a matter to live in poor , but it is more important to live with dignity, to have a passion for life. This is not what I want to say to speak, I think, but I feel that they are brought to my this message.

I think what I collected contains very interesting cultures, I hope to save these cultures, in fact, there are not too many people in Hong Kong for many years to do this type of data collecting program. I tried to keep some things which are worth preserving with all my ability, in my spare time, and I want my children to see how's  Hong Kong looked like in the past , and make them believe.

My opinion:::

What I really appreciate about Simon Go is that, how he make use of his artwork. Art is not only about one person, art will become meaningful only when it related to people or society. Art is not a way to express one emotion, but has its own meaning and message which lead re-understanding. In Simon Go's photo, I can always feel the passion of him towards own local culture. He was willing to spend long time to know, understand, and feel the real culture of what he want to shoot. It may be easy for him to shoot beautiful photos, but as what he said, he want to shoot ''good photo'' rather than '' beautiful photos''. I think he did this , because after years , we can still understand the old faded culture of Hong Kong by looking at his photos, and remember how people loved their past.

The artist :: Simon Go

Go Man Ching, Simon graduated from the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1989.He was a fine-art photography and has been an investigative photo reporter for Hong Kong newspapers over 10 years.He also is the project director of Hulu Culture, an organization devoted to preserving indigenous culture through community awareness.

His artworks, aim at reflecting the cultural characteristics or social issue in Hong Kong by the photo image. His works are largely influenced by his photojournalist experience.His photos focus on the lower-class citizens. His works ''Cage-people'' (1995),was exhibited in Hong Kong Arts Centre and also presented in the tour exhibitions of Contemporary Asian Art by Anderson Gallery, School of Arts, Viriginal Commonwealth University in U.S.A.At the same time, he also joined the exhibition of microsm of Hong Kong Metropolitan in France.Other exhibitions included ''Poverty in Urban Poor'' (1997), and''Orchestration-Hong Kong Old Shops'' (2007).He also published books,called''Hong Kong Apothecary: A Visual History through Chinese Medicine Packaging'' (2001) and ''Hong Kong Old Shops'' (2008).He was awarded the Hong Kong Print Awards in 2001.

As he said, '' I love Hong Kong and I am proud to be a Hong Kong person.''

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About Hulu Culture

Hulu Culture (文化葫蘆) is a Hong Kong non-profit organisation which was established in 2004 dedicated to protecting Hong Kong traditional culture and heritage.

Hulu Culture was found by Simon Go 吳文正, who grew up in Kowloon City, where old groceries and aged shops fostered nostalgia. Besides photography, he is also dedicated to recording Hong Kong people's livelihood through interviewing. His wife Iman Fok 霍天雯, who has been a social worker for 13 years, also made her mind to join Hulu Culture as the chief executive to serve culture preservation.

From: Wiki 

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Here are some of the artworks:

Cageman with Cat (1996)

Demonstration  (1997)

Picture Before Handover No.16 (1997)

Poors in Shamshuipo (1997)

Tai Kwok Tsui No.2 (1995)

......and more to go ...

卡夫卡與銀杏葉

彷彿一條秋日的小徑：在還沒來得及把它清掃乾淨之前，便又蓋滿了落葉。

                                                                                                                 —卡夫卡

我不知道這個比喻中的本體是什麼，大概是什麼也有可能，只需要投入個人主觀情感。這是我第一次看卡夫卡的寓言集中，最深深感動我的一句。

全因為我在自我探索、了解、尋覓的過程中，終於慢慢地確定，在未來的人生，我應該要面對，甚至決定要走下去的方向。而在這種不是每個人都自願去做的事上，我經常遇到的，就是卡夫卡所說的這種情況。

這又讓我想起有一次在座談會中聽到小思老師分享的一段經歷，她說：以前在日本留學的時候，大約在十月左右，大學大道兩旁的銀杏樹就會漸漸枯謝。只是幾天的光景，大道上舖滿了，一片的鮮黃，猶如地氊一樣。在她單純地用語言描述時，整幅美麗的風景清楚可見地映在腦海中。然後她說：「我從那時候一直保留著的銀杏葉，是我求學時期的一種浪漫。」

現代的銀杏被取用到藥材的領域，作用健腦保健食品的一種重要元素。這樣我又禁不住作了一個聯想：假如卡夫卡所說的「落葉」是銀杏葉的話，我又應如何處理它們呢？

因思考而產生的種種煩困、擔憂、焦慮，我總是靜靜地任由它們躺在小徑上，看著它們美麗的結束生命。有時候，我很想用一把大火，將它們去燒盡，裊裊上升的輕煙，乘著葉子的靈魂，又回到起點，添加我所需的養份。

但有更多的時候，我還是想保留它們，即使小徑已逐漸變黃。

絲

腦袋瓜裡養了隻蜘蛛

日日夜夜在吐絲

默默地      左爬右攀

纖幼的手伸進隙縫

留下毒汁    甜甜    味覺麻掉

白線佈滿空間

連空氣也被捕獲了

太多太多太多太多......

還有誰能逃得掉?