Dazu album pages were photographed at the Dazu grotto in Chongqing in 2003. This work is the first major piece in Cherney’s acclaimed Bounded by Mountains series and has been acquired by the Princeton University Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Dazu grotto were begun in the late Tang and Five Dynasties period (9th century) and flourished during the Southern Song and Jin dynasties (13th century), comprising over 5,000 cliff-carved Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian figures that collectively reflect China’s historic synthesis of those three philosophical traditions.

Driven by a deep reverence for classical Chinese culture, Cherney traveled to Dazu to photograph the Śākyamuni Parinirvana carving. From a single 35 mm negative, he carefully selected a narrow fragment, enlarged it, and printed it on xuan paper as an individual folio. The folios were then bound into a traditional accordion-fold album. In the exhibition, the act of leafing through the album is reenacted—its images fractured, continued, obscured, and magnified—recreating and expanding our visual encounter with Song-dynasty Buddhist sculpture.

「大足」册页拍摄于2003年重庆大足石刻，是秋麦代表作「山重集」系列中第一件创作的重要作品，曾被普林斯顿大学艺术博物馆、大都会艺术博物馆、洛杉矶郡立艺术博物馆收藏。大足石刻开凿于9世纪唐末、五代时期，盛于13世纪两宋时期，汇集了5000余座摩崖造像集中体现了中国儒释道哲学思想融合和发展的文化历史。怀着长期对中国古典文化的敬畏之心，秋麦游历于此，用摄影记录下「释迦涅盘圣迹图石刻」，然后在一张35毫米底片中塞选出一条细长的局部，放大并分割成张单页，打印在宣纸上，然后装裱成传统经折装册页。展览还原了册页翻阅的传统，图像在断裂，延续，遮幅和放大中却重塑了我们对宋代佛造像的视觉体验。

Series: Bounded By Mountains 山重集

Series: Map of Mountains and Seas 山海圖