Manhattanhenge

Su Hui didn't go directly to the venue. After smoking, he first went to the leadership office of the Department of Fine Arts, and found the head of the department to question and report the matter.

Just in case, before going in, he turned on the recording device on his phone.

The other party also looked embarrassed, indicating that this had nothing to do with them.

"Actually, Mike has been in trouble a few times before, and we have not escalated the situation for his father's sake. He is very dissatisfied with your career development. You may not know that he also had a photography exhibition some time ago, but Canceled due to special circumstances…”

"His photography exhibition has nothing to do with me."

Su Hui's long-standing tolerance did not bring him respect, so his tone this time was much more decisive.

"The so-called special circumstances are nothing more than the troubles he caused himself. He took drugs today, came to my workplace to make trouble, and even beat my students. I absolutely cannot tolerate this. Everything he did You all know this very well, but in turn ask the victim to accept it calmly."

"I know, don't get excited."

The head of the department knew that he had bipolar disorder, so he was afraid of angering him, so he couldn't say it too directly, "Eddy, many things are not as easy as imagined. You know, these students go to school here, and they are also supported by sponsors. , otherwise many of them would have difficulty completing their studies..."

"So, because his father is a patron of the college, he's free to bully the other students and slander the teaching assistants, right?"

The other party was silent.

Su Hui was very dissatisfied with their attitude, "If this is the case, I don't think I have anything to say. I will apply for suspension from today, so that it will be convenient for the administrative staff to investigate. But I hope that Professor White will not be framed because of this. As for the victim, his students are all over the United States, and you should know better than me how influential he is."

The leader of the department immediately stood up, trying to keep him, "Wait, Eddy, calm down a little..."

Su Hui turned around and raised his eyebrows, "Do you think I look like a mental patient now?"

The other party was dumbfounded immediately, paused for a moment, and tried to save it, "I just think there is a better way to deal with this matter, it just takes a little time, and the two sides can actually reach a consensus."

"I don't agree with a racist person who is violent and addicted to drugs, and I don't have time to spend on this matter. Hope the academy can deal with people who are wrong in a fair and equitable way."

Coming out of the academy, Su Hui stopped a taxi along the street.

"where to?"

"Dia: Beacon."

In the early days, I discussed with Keisha many venues for the first exhibition. In the end, Su Hui chose this contemporary art museum in the suburbs of New York. First, the space here is larger than many art museums in New York City, which is very suitable for exhibitions. Installation art, a work that requires space and blank space; second, it is located on the banks of the Hudson River, with beautiful scenery.Su Hui went there for the first time two years ago, standing in the museum and seeing the large bright grassland through the floor-to-ceiling glass, fell in love with it.

When he arrived, Keisha was already inside, making final lighting adjustments.

"How is it? Isn't it very good?"

Su Hui nodded. Seeing the artist's introduction poster on the place where he entered the venue, with the resume of the academy written on it, he still felt displeased. He didn't understand why once a person is rich and powerful, he can turn black and white.

"Tomorrow's interview with reporters, I want them not to mention the college where I teach." Su Hui said to Kesha.

"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Keisha was curious, but recorded it as he asked.

Su Hui didn't say too much, "It's a small conflict. Anyway, I'm suspended now, so it's not easy to explain."

"Okay, I see."

"Also..." Su Hui thought of her unstable mental state recently, and wanted to say something, but just as she was about to speak, Kaisha was called away by the staff at the side.

"Kesha, look at this, is the wallpaper missing?"

"I'm here!" Kesha packed up her pen and notebook, and patted Su Hui on the shoulder, "I'll go over and have a look first, we'll talk later, and you check them out one by one."

"Okay." Seeing her leave, Su Hui sighed and pulled himself together to do the final check.

In order to facilitate the start of the next morning, Kaisha booked a nearby hotel for him, so that he didn't have to go back to the city. Su Hui was busy in the art gallery until late at night, and went back to the hotel alone to rest.

Lying in bed, he couldn't sleep.In the afternoon, he received another call from the academy's investigation team, who asked a lot of questions that he thought were completely unnecessary, and even mentioned his private life.

Su Hui was very helpless, but it was difficult to break out.During dinner time, I received a call from Professor White. He seemed to know about it and advised Su Hui not to take it to heart.

The big bed room in the hotel has plenty of space, but Su Hui misses Ning Yixiao very much, but he knows that Ning Yixiao is very busy today, and Carl said that he even flew to the Bay Area temporarily to deal with urgent matters.

He knew that it wasn't normal to miss someone like this, they were both adults on their own, and it wasn't possible to be there for each other all the time.

Su Hui thought that he might really grow on Ning Yixiao's body, once separated, the pain would be stretched like maltose.

Lying on the bed tossing and turning, he still couldn't hold back and sent a message to Ning Yixiao.

[Kitten: I miss you so much. ]

Ten minutes later, his cell phone rang, and it was Ning Yixiao.

"Su Hui, how long have we been apart?"

It's strange, the colder his voice is, the sexier it is, which makes Su Hui's heart itch.

"Hmm..." Su Hui wanted to figure it out, but his mind was confused, so he gave up, "Anyway, I just miss you, the hotel room is so empty, I feel like I won't be able to sleep tonight, where are you now?"

"At the airport, I'm going to board the plane in a while, and I'll find you soon."

Su Hui knew in his heart that when he boarded the plane at this time, he would land in New York at the earliest in the morning, and with Ning Yixiao's obsessive-compulsive disorder, it might be difficult to fall asleep on the plane.

"I miss you too."

Ning Yixiao suddenly spoke.

Su Hui's restless heart was easily suppressed by this sentence, and his hot heartbeat was caught in Ning Yixiao's voice through the electromagnetic waves.

"Sleep, wake up and meet."

"it is good."

After hanging up the phone, Su Hui picked up his mobile phone and recorded a short video. It was just that he was walking around the room, opening the balcony door to see the dark scenery outside, wanting to smoke but couldn't spare to light it, and putting The mobile phone was temporarily placed on the balcony and almost fell off. It didn't look very smart, but he smiled happily.

He didn't know that this video, which was only five minutes long, was watched countless times by Ning Yixiao, who couldn't sleep on the plane, after receiving it.

After a six-hour flight, Ning Yixiao landed in New York early in the morning. After picking up the flowers, she asked the driver to drive directly to the art museum, and arrived at the appointed time.

The exhibition didn't open until ten o'clock in the morning, but Su Hui asked him to come one hour earlier, saying that the staff would let him in with a special invitation letter.

Sure enough, Ning Yixiao took out the slightly naive three-dimensional greeting card, and the staff checking at the door smiled and invited him in.

The theme of the exhibition is Chinese - "Hui", and his English name Eddy is written below it. It was the first time that these two words were put together, and Ning Yixiao suddenly discovered that they had the same meaning.

Eddy has the meaning of "vortex", and the word Hui refers to the swirling water flow.

Ning Yixiao was not interested in word games before, but now that he is infected by Su Hui, he also finds the joy of dismantling and explaining.

Due to the early entry, there were no other people in the venue and it was very empty.

Walking into it, he found that from the first floor, the decoration and design of the venue seemed to be divided into two distinct parts:

Half of it is snow white, and the other half is dark gray and black. The floor-to-ceiling glass of the white part is pasted with gorgeous warm-toned stickers. The colors are gorgeous. The beautiful lawn and sunlight outside the window come in and fall to the ground, like a natural dream filter. .

On the other half of the venue, which is pasted with deep black wallpaper, even the lighting is in a gloomy tone. The window glass is covered with dark blue transparent paper, and the long strips of blue light and shadow fall one by one, going round and round, like a city that can never get out. Alien space.

Without any explanation, Ning Yixiao instantly understood the core theme of the exhibition - Su Hui's bipolar disorder.

He regards the arrangement of this art museum as the largest collection of installation art, facing his own illness, and storing large and small works in it.

On the first floor, the interlaced part of black and white is an empty open space.

The arrangement here is a little dark, with a high and wide space. The installation consists of three parts, with a concrete forest constructed of concrete and metal blocks on both sides, and a slowly moving "sun" in the narrow gap.

The entire artificial sun is a giant spherical acrylic installation.

Red smoke is sealed in the transparent acrylic, and the light tracking device above the venue is backlit to create a hazy sunset at dusk, which is slightly shifted from east to west.

At the moment of disappearing, the screen behind projected the time—15 minutes and 20 seconds.

This is the Manhattan Sun that they own, and it is also the first exhibit that every visitor who comes to the exhibition can see.

"Ning Yixiao, you're here!"

Hearing the sound, Ning Yixiao turned his head and saw Su Hui waving at him not far away.

He was wearing a blue-purple irregular loose shirt and white trousers, his hair was partly tied back, and he was wearing a Bluetooth headset. When he ran, the hem of his clothes fluttered, looking like a butterfly flying towards him.

Under the artificial hanging sun, Ning Yixiao embraced him.

Su Hui buried her face in Ning Yixiao's shoulder, smelling his familiar scent, her restless heart was suddenly soothed.

He raised his head, "We are well dressed."

Ning Yixiao wore a rare white suit jacket, loose fit, with a blue inner lining, making him tall and handsome.

He also held a bouquet of Icelandic ice cream in his hand.

"Give it to me?" Su Hui was very pleasantly surprised. After thinking about it, it was indeed the flowering season of peonies.

He and Ning Yixiao also went from winter to early summer.

Ning Yixiao handed him the flower, "Congratulations to the kitten for holding its first solo exhibition."

"Thank you." Su Hui took it and buried her face in the big bouquet, thinking of how she used to pick flowers for Ning Yixiao in the garden.

Ning Yixiao pinched his face, "I shouldn't be late."

"No." Su Hui raised his hand and glanced at his watch. There are still four or ten minutes before the official opening, "It's just right."

Ning Yixiao didn't understand what he meant when he said just right, but the next moment Su Hui grabbed his hand, led him to the elevator marked "Employee Only", went in and pressed the third floor.

"Where are you going?" Ning Yixiao looked down at him with soft eyes.

"Look at the exhibition."

"Just the two of us?"

"Yeah." Su Hui smiled, "This is my first solo exhibition, so I want to invite my boyfriend to be my first visitor..."

The elevator door opened slowly.

Su Hui turned her head, with soft love flowing in her eyes, "Come and see the most important works in this exhibition."

Ning Yixiao walked out with him, "Did you just look at the most important thing..."

But in the next second, his footsteps froze in place.

In the center of the huge third-floor venue, there is only one huge work, which is located in the very center of black and white. Like the hanging sun in the center of the first floor, it is a work that spans mania and depression.

What comes into view is the door, but it is not just one, but the arched door that is nested continuously inward. The passage and door are wrapped and covered by countless letters, as if created by handwritten letters. infinite space-time.

"In my eyes, every letter contains time information, but it is not only a measurement like a clock, but also an eternal commemoration of time. So I use those crowdfunded handwritten letters to make It has become such a special space-time tunnel." Su Hui introduced it to him.

"Do you have mine?" Ning Yixiao looked at the letter papers on both sides.

"No." Su Hui took his arm, "I don't want to part with it, I have collected every letter you wrote."

Ning Yixiao smiled and looked down at the ground.

There are sheets of paper piled up like snow under the feet, but in the middle, there is a long path paved by squares of the same size.

Strangely, some of these squares are lit up, exuding a faint fluorescent blue light, while some are off.Ning Yixiao observed carefully, and found that the number 1 was marked on the lower right corner of the part that was lit, and the number 0 was marked on the part that was off.

In this way, a long string of numeric characters is concatenated in sequence.

Is it binary?

Ning Yixiao was not sure, but every step he took, he secretly remembered it in his heart.

There is a large curtain covering the top of the head, and an oil painting-like picture is projected from bottom to top, with a large green lawn, blue-purple flowers, and a huge wind that reminds people of a helicopter, but the wind here is What really blows on the curtain rolls like a wave.

Much like the movie that played when they met in the studio.

At the end of the space-time tunnel, there is a cube with a height of three meters, covered by a huge gray forging cloth, and the name of this work - Reset1224 is stitched on a corner of the forging cloth.

"You pull it." Su Hui handed a corner of the cloth to Ning Yixiao.

Ning Yixiao hesitated, "Me?"

"Yeah." Su Hui stood on tiptoe and approached his ear, "This is my birthday present for you."

Ning Yixiao was stunned for a moment, looked down at the name, and pulled off the covering curtain.

The whole picture revealed made his breathing stagnate, as if going back to six years ago, when he broke into Su Hui's secret base for the first time, he was penetrated by a dream that he had never seen before.

The shape of the transparent body wrapped outside is like a huge capsule, in which there are countless pieces of crystal clear blue glass, overlapping and scattered, soaked by the lights behind, together forming the transparent and dreamy appearance of the glacier.

This is very similar to the blue glacier that Ning Yixiao climbed alone.

It seems that Su Hui personally excerpted one of the clips and stored it here for him to watch.

"Give me your hand."

Su Hui spread out his palms and smiled at him.

Ning Yixiao did so, and Su Hui pulled her outstretched hand to a button on the base, and pressed it.

Suddenly, the huge transparent capsule shattered, and the "glacier" was disintegrated and split like a mirror. The glass fragments were separated from each other, and under the traction of the translucent mechanical device, they floated upward, scattered, and filled within a few minutes. the entire capsule.

Ning Yixiao noticed that a timer appeared on the base.

As time passed, the separated glass fragments approached each other, were pushed to the top by the device, combined one by one, and finally assembled and restored to the original complete form on the top, only completely upside down, but also crystal clear and dreamy.

The glacier has recovered.

He glanced at the base time, it was exactly 12 minutes and 24 seconds.

Ning Yixiao couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth.

It turned out to be the case.

In infinite time and space, even if they are separated, they will meet again.

At this moment, his unromantic soul also comprehended the true meaning of this artwork in an instant.

Su Hui explained, "There are 1224 fragments in total, half of which are engraved with the letter S and half of which are engraved with N. They are transparent and you have to look carefully to see them."

"I set 12 minutes and 24 seconds as a time unit. Each glass shard is connected to the line of the traction device. Under program control, every time a time unit passes, the glacier in the space-time capsule will experience a complete fragmentation and Reorganize, and repeat.”

After finishing speaking, he looked at Ning Yixiao, put his hands on the back of his neck, "Do you like it?"

Ning Yixiao nodded, "Yes."

He couldn't say more, and all words became extremely barren at this moment.

Ning Yixiao only knew that there would never be another person in this world who would devote all his heart and soul to creating dreams for him like Su Hui.

It suddenly occurred to him that many years ago, when he was trapped in that fishing village, when he was beaten and called a "wild species", he saw the same poor mother. Tears on the beach.

The tide that comes repeatedly is like a huge space-time shackle, repeating itself again and again, just like his inescapable painful life.

At that time, in order to have the courage to survive, he imagined many future appearances, and thought about what a superior life he would lead after he became famous.

But the delusion that his heart was higher than the sky at that moment, compared with the second he has now, is really a difference.

It turned out that the lonely child at the beginning would also have a day when he would be dazzled by the heavy love.

"There's only one thing that's a pity." Su Hui's face was covered in a psychedelic blue, and his pupils were clear, only reflecting Ning Yixiao's face. "This gift is six and a half years late."

However, the effect must be better than six years ago, after all, he has also grown up.

"Thank you." Ning Yixiao kissed him in his own gift, "My little artist."

This title made Su Hui a little embarrassed, and smiled, "You're welcome."

With his hands behind his back, he pulled Ning Yixiao back, "Let's go to the outermost side and have a look, it will have a different effect."

So Ning Yixiao led him to go through the space-time road of building blocks again, and this time he recalculated according to his memory, and it was indeed binary.

Su Hui obviously doesn't understand computers, but he quietly put these small thoughts related to him in.

"That's right, this cube..."

Before he could explain, Ning Yixiao took out his mobile phone and handed it to Su Hui. A binary sequence was written on the screen: [101011011101011111010001001010000110011101100010]

"It's 48 yuan in total. I just remembered it. That's right."

Su Hui was startled, her already big eyes widened a bit, "You really won a gold medal..."

Is this memory too exaggerated?

"The main thing is that it can be converted. After calculating the first few, you can basically guess it."

Ning Yixiao tapped his caution, "The combination of these squares is my name, and the conversion of binary to 2 is ShawNing, right?"

Su Hui felt the joy of being found out of the little easter eggs she made herself, "You are so amazing, you can see that, you are indeed my boyfriend."

Ning Yixiao also laughed, "You didn't make a mistake."

"I've checked it many, many times!"

Walking to the starting point, turning around to look at the space-time capsule, the glacier inside broke again and fell into a new cycle, but Ning Yixiao felt calmer than ever before.Because he is sure that no matter how many times, the broken glacier will recover.

This huge installation art work, combined, is actually Su Hui's cryptic confession.

[No matter how many times, I will come back to you. ]

"Can I keep this work?" Ning Yixiao looked at Su Hui.

Su Hui showed a little smug expression on his face, and tilted his head, "Mmm..."

He took a few steps back, walked to the side of the entrance of the "Space-Time Tunnel", pulled out a white folder from nowhere as if by magic, returned to Ning Yixiao, and handed it to him.

Ning Yixiao opened the folder, the first one was the signed collection agreement, Su Hui had already signed in the column of [artist], and the column of collectors had already printed the words Ning Yixiao.

"Ning Yixiao, you don't need to collect it at all."

After Su Hui finished speaking, he turned to the second page, "This is the sketch of the prototype six years ago. The original is missing. This is my restoration. The next few are the detailed drawings of the past six months."

"These are all yours."

Su Hui took his hand, placed it on the side of her face, and pressed it.

"Me too."