涧户（彩墨）

这是八年前的旧作了。当时已题字落款，预备要展出或是“出嫁”的，不知何故又保留下来。前些日子偶尔翻开箧子，在柜子底下发现了它，如获至宝，像老朋友久别重逢一般。

一幅画出去了，挂在别人家里，就有“嫁女儿”的心情。当然希望新主人能够好好地珍爱它、疼惜它。而不是为了敷衍人情，随便施舍几个小钱买来随便挂的应酬品。

虽说画家卖画是天经地义之事，但如卖得便宜了，这张画铁定是没有好下场了。有一次我去乡下散步，经过一处农人的菜园，那菜园里竟然有用许多幅有美丽图画的木框串接起来做矮墙的。蹲下一看，竟是桃园县某某画家的画作。连忙打电话给××某，他赶过来一看，差点都气死了，这就是画作贱卖的后果。至于说把画送人，那更是没得分说的了。

Home by a Stream/ink and color painting

This is an old work from 8 years ago, and I had already stamped and signed it at that time. The painting was going to be shown at an exhibition or sold to someone. I don’t know why I ended up keeping it. I opened a trunk by chance not long ago and discovered it at the bottom. It felt like finding a lost treasure, as if seeing an old friend after a long time.

It feels like a daughter has been married out when a painting of mine is sold and hung in someone else’s house. Without doubt, I want the new owner to cherish and love it. I don’t my paintings become objects to be bought with some money and used as social flourishes.

Although it is expected that painters will sell their paintings, a painting will absolutely come to a bad end if it is sold too cheaply. I was once strolling around in the countryside and passed through a vegetable patch. I saw that the low fence of the vegetable patch was connected using frames with beautiful paintings. I discovered they were paintings done by a painter in Taoyuan County after squatting down to have a good look at them. I called this person in a hurry, and he was so mad when he saw how his paintings had been used. This is what happens when a painter sells his paintings too cheaply. As for paintings that are given as gifts, we can expect even worse outcomes. ＠

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