We need a place to remember time and we need a place to forget time. —— shanhai
From nature, to nature
The city is tired, busy, depressing, and the jungle of steel and concrete is suffocating; life shouldn’t be like this. It’s time to pause everything in the city, in a normal morning, welcome the first ray of morning sunshine, into nature, embrace that the most real us.
The breeze is misty, the sun rises and the clouds open. Grass swaying in the wind, such as waves such as the sea, through the leaves of the light, in the forest path mottled, the sun shines on the beach crystal flashes, the wind in the mountains blowing my hair, the waves of the sea soaked my feet, just want to feel the moment quietly feel the passage of time. Like eternity, like entropy.
At this moment, I am thinking, is city life letting us forget that we also once came from nature?
Why mountains? Why the sea?
I climbed snowy mountains and I crossed the sea. The serenity and majesty of nature, its thickness and grandeur, have made me feel the smallness and resilience of being born as a human being.
The process of climbing mountains is so similar to the first half of my life. When I was a child, I was rosy and innocent, the foothills were lush and green, when I was a teenager, I had a strong personality, the trees were green and red on the trails, when I was a young man, I was ambitious, the daisy at the mountainside was extraordinarily spirited, and when I climbed up to the top of the mountain I was already an adult, and I was surrounded by a blanket of white. The beauty of this journey, I write them into the eyes, planted in the heart. On the top of the mountain, the wind and snow, but not depressed, it turns out that it is only on the top of the mountain to see, the other side of the mountain and a group of mountains. Growing up in time, and harboring thoughts in climbing the mountain, there should be “a mountain” in my design.
The sea, lapping at my feet on the shore, or the sea, refracting the blue spots under my boat, the fine waves pushing my boat like a cradle, or the sea, lifting the fishing boat high and throwing it to the surface, I fell down in the boat, or the sea, lifting the waves like a cliff made of water slapping at the ocean-going freighter, submerging the freighter in the sea and lifting it to the sky, I held my breath when I lost my breath, I held my breath when I lost my breath, I held my breath when I lost my breath, I held my breath when I lost my breath. I held my breath in the black waters, and when the lost sound reappeared, though the wind was not calm and the waves were not quiet, the rainbow was already hanging in the sky. This experience of showing courage to the sea is really a tried-and-true one, and every time I miss it, there should be “a sea” in my design.
This mountain and this sea are my understanding of life and my hope for life.
I really hope that I can go out at any time, to enjoy the natural scenery, to feel the breath of heaven and earth, like a petrel, flying freely between the mountains and the sea, reaching the clouds, and then falling freely, or stopping on a branch, or stopping next to the reef.
The lofty mountains, the vastness of the sea, and the choice of man, in the mysterious East united into the philosophy of “the unity of heaven and man”.
Universal watch design is in pursuit of the complexity of craftsmanship, the accumulation of functions, while the relationship between man and nature and time is always neglected and forgotten. This philosophy of “unity of heaven and man” or “Tao” rarely appears in watches, if there is no such expression, then start with me, and if there is, then I will become a fan of this philosophical thinking.
I try my best to engrave “this mountain” and “this sea” on my designs, not for any other reason, but because every time I look at them, they remind me of the relationship between man and nature, and evoke the desire for freedom.
(Mountains and Seas —— one issue at a time)