在不久的某一天，我们一起去远行，只有我和你。抛开庸庸碌碌的日常生活，逃离紧凑烦闷的细碎工作，就算只有一个小时，就算只有一天。如果我可以，那么你愿意吗？

One day very soon, let’s go away together, only you and me. Set aside all the hustle and bustle of the daily routine, regardless of all the trivil work, only for one hour, one day. If I can , shall we?

这段有点像是去私奔的话语，不是某个电影里缠绵悱恻的情话，更不是哪个广告的宣传词，而是一幅简单的剪纸作品，它叫《可以吗，愿意吗》。

This sounds like running away, not the words with keen emotions, or something like advertisement. This is a simple paper-cut work called Can We, Shall We?

或许在每个人心中都有一件一直想做的事，直到有一天，你完成了它。这就是这件作品想告诉我们的真实感受，也是许许多多的人，能够从中获得共鸣的原因。

Maybe everyone has the thing that has always been thinking about, then one day you do it. This is what the work is about, and the reason why so many people associated with it.

创造出这幅作品的，并不是想象中浪漫多情的年轻女子，而是一个看起来胡子拉碴的中年大叔。他叫罗伯特·莱恩（Robert Ryan），来自英国伦敦。他最大的爱好就是剪纸，每件作品不仅做工精美，并且都在讲述一段温馨浪漫的小故事。

The creater of this work is not a sentimental girl as we have imagined but a middle-age “uncle” with full beard. His name is Robert Ryan who comes from London. Paper-cutting is his favorite hobby, and each of his work is telling a warm story with exquisite handicraft.

这是关于一对别离的恋人的故事。作品中，他们虽然不能彼此相见，但是山的两边，同样的时间，他们望着的却是同一轮明月。也正因如此，月亮在他们之间产生了某种微妙的联系，就像一条内心世界的纽带，将两颗孤单的心紧紧连在了一起。旁观的我们，不仅能看到平静的此时此刻，更能猜到主人公们波澜壮阔的拳拳内心。

This is a story about two people separated. In this work, they cannot meet each other, but when you look at the sky, they are in the same moment with the same moon. This is resource of their slight emotion, which is like a bond of the two hearts combining the lonely souls tight together. As onlookers, what we can see now is not only the peaceful moment, but also the protagonists’ sincere emotion.

这是一件受纽约中央车站委托的创作。在车站里，每时每刻，都有人忙碌地奔走着，他们永远无法摆脱时间的纠缠。而这幅作品就是让每个人都可以停止对时间下各种负面的定义。只有将生活看作是一次精彩的旅行，我们才能真正抓住眼下的每时每刻，珍惜活着的每一天。

This is a commision for a piece of work in New York Grand Central Station. In the station, people are always rushing around and obsessed with time. While this work is to stop the negative definitions on time, but to regard time as a fabulous traveling. Only in this way can we grasp every moment in life and fulfill it.

裁制纸类作品的过程，其实非常简单，但是绘画却需要很久。思考、设计、推翻，再重新开始，这不仅仅是一次作品的涅槃重生，更是创作者本身的内心修行。每个艺术家都是一个造梦者，如何解读与这个世界的关系，是他们创作的灵感来源。只有真正理解了生活的人，才能珍惜和感激那些微不足道的生活中平凡而独特的一面。

Paper-cutting is not that difficult, the hardest part is drawing. Thinking, designing, and overturning, this is not only times of rebirthes of a work, but more about the process of cultivating oneself. Every artist is a dream-maker, this is something about how you see this world. Only the people who really understand the true values of life can be able to fully appreciate how the unique and special the ordinary is.

对罗伯特来说，创作不是制作出一件仅供别人观赏的作品，而是要走近寻常百姓的生活，能让每个人看得见，摸得着。一千个人眼中，有一千个哈姆雷特，好的作品，不仅是作者情感的抒发，也是观者情感的共鸣。就好比这创作不仅是作者一个人的创作，也是眼前，每一个人的心作。

For Robert, creating is not only about making things and hanging them on the wall, he wants his works to live in people’s life. Opinions differ from people, while the good works are the ones which can express emotions of the creater as well as associating with others. Creaters are not lonely, because all the works in front, are loved by each appreciator.

撰稿：文小样 译者：尚小桦