Sourceof ThreeRivers 曲·源（2010-2019） : 任建军

曲·源

无数“曲”成为江河源的真正源头。
这是关于长江，黄河和澜沧江源头36.3万平方公里流域面积上的影像。江河源流域和大河的更远处是两个世界。草原上的情感隐藏在民歌里神秘传承；人文、自然生态艰难坚守；4000米高程以上的人们没有过多向自然索取；巫、宗教、科学交错模糊，缓慢演进。
绕过大美江河源荣光里的幻象，静静地凝望她，一幅幅影像与心相遇。总是觉得江河源把一切真理性的情景化身为一幅沉默的景观，直到与行走时的我相遇，我发现了她，记录下来。广阔江河源藏着我的情绪，也许之前轮回里灵魂在此歇息，此生，我以血液里残存的混合文化基因为索引，并拿人类发明的图像采集器把它们串联起来，拼贴出相对完整的有质感的自己。感恩源头给予我与内心契合的答案，我记录的江河源“源影像”，让它不断叠加，成为体系，逐渐形成草原视觉文化的奠基。“源影像”是江河源自然法则的一部分佐证，希望后来同道的视觉工作者可以在此基础上累加，丰富。

2019年，完成《曲·源》。它见证了我心灵逐渐走向自由的历程。10年，与江河源如恋人般漫长的缱绻。

Source of Three Rivers

Innumerable streams form the genuine source of the three rivers.
This book is a collection of the photographs about the source region of three rivers (yangtze , yellow and lantsang rivers), which covers an area of 363,000 square kilometers.

Beyond the farthest reach of those riverheads, there is a hidden world where the intense sentiments of Tibetan nomads turn into mysterious folks, where the cultural and natural ecosystems toughly persist, where people living in the plateau above the altitude of 4000m ask little from nature, and where Shamanism, religions and science intertwine with each other and trudge their way forward.

Seeing through the “great beauty” illusion of this mysterious land, gazing at her in silence, and listening to her talk, I have always had a feeling that this land transforms all its soul and sprit into a silent scene, which remains unveiled until I come across it, appreciate it and record it. I believe that this great earth holds the fascination and glory of my past life, and in this life, I shall make an index out of the residual multicultural genes in my blood, string the shattered memories together with a picture collector invented by modern human beings and reform myself as a man of substance, of flesh and bone. Thanksgiving for the source region grants me an answer that echoes in my heart, the “Source Image” that I recorded amplifies it, perfects it and lays the foundation of “Qinghai-Tibetan plateau visual culture”. “Source Image” is only a partial witness of the natural rules of the source region and I wish my fellow visual workers could join me to enrich it.

In 2019, I completed “The Source Region of The Three Rivers”, which also witnessed the gradual freedom of my soul.

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