为什么我做了《宇宙的回响》：60 幅画，如何长成一套卡牌
《宇宙的回响》是一套由我原创的 60 张简体中文艺术调频卡牌。
但在它成为一套卡牌之前，它们首先是一幅又一幅心灵意象：鲸鱼游过深海，白马穿过星光，宇航员独自望向远方，月亮在不同的夜晚升起。
这些意象在我的创作里反复出现。起初，我并不知道它们会去往哪里。我只是一次次把那些难以被语言说清的感受画下来：归属与边界、停歇与流动、看见与创造、失重与重新站稳。
后来我才意识到，它们并不是彼此孤立的画面。它们正在慢慢长成一个可以被人拿在手里、带回日常的宇宙。
世界给了我很多，我想用创造答谢
世界给了我太多——光、颜色，以及一些偶然降临的领悟。
我把它们收下，藏在一次次绘画里。直到有一天，它们长成一张张卡牌。
对我来说，创造是一种答谢方式。
《宇宙的回响》不是为了替谁给出标准答案，也不是为了预测接下来会发生什么。它更像是一件信物：证明世界曾温柔地路过我，而我也想通过这些画，温柔地路过另一个人。
从一幅画，到一套可以使用的作品
只有画面还不够，我希望人们不只是收藏它们，也能够真正和它们相处。
于是，60 幅作品被整理为 12 个彼此关联的主题。每张卡除了画面，也带有一段文字和一个可以继续观看、书写或创作的入口。
你可以只看一幅画，也可以读一句话；可以写下此刻最先出现的联想，也可以用一支普通的笔，让画面带你画出另一条线。
这里没有唯一正确的解释。画面只是打开一道门，真正走进去的人是你。
手绘的画面，以及创作中的工具
这套卡牌中的画面由我使用 iPad 和 Procreate 一笔一笔完成。数字媒介让我能够保留水彩般的流动、渗透和留白，同时不断调整光与色彩之间的关系。
在文字和整体结构的整理过程中，我也使用 AI 作为思考与校对工具。它帮助我梳理语言、检查结构，但无法代替那些真正决定作品的部分：我经历过什么、为什么被一个意象打动、如何选择一笔颜色，以及最后愿意留下怎样的画面。
作品的核心从来不是工具，而是创作者真实活过并愿意交出的东西。
那个从“No.”变成“On.”的意外
印刷过程中曾出现一个小小的意外：原本代表编号的“No.”被印成了“On.”。
最初它看起来像一个错误。可当我再次看到这个词时，却觉得它意外地贴近这套卡牌的状态——On，是打开，是连接，也是此刻在线。
我最终保留了它。它提醒我，一件作品真正完成，并不是在它离开印厂的时候，而是在有人愿意打开它、看见它，并让它进入自己的生活时。
它最终是一面镜子
我希望《宇宙的回响》能成为你桌面上的一小片星空。
你不必每天使用，也不必相信任何固定规则。或许只是在某个匆忙的早晨、某个暂时没有答案的晚上，你愿意停下来，看一幅画，读一句话，然后听听自己此刻真正想说什么。
卡牌不会替你决定方向。
它只是一面镜子，让那些已经存在于你心里的感受、问题和微光，暂时拥有一个可以被看见的形状。
而这，就是我想送给世界的回响。
查看《宇宙的回响》艺术卡牌 / Explore the Cosmic Echo art deck
English
Cosmic Echo is a 60-card art deck in Simplified Chinese, created from my original artwork.
Before it became a deck, it began as a series of inner images: whales moving through the deep sea, a white horse crossing starlight, an astronaut looking into the distance, and moons rising over different nights.
These images returned again and again in my work. At first, I did not know where they were leading. I simply kept painting feelings that were difficult to explain in words: belonging and boundaries, rest and movement, seeing and creating, losing gravity and finding my footing again.
Only later did I realize that these were not isolated pictures. They were slowly becoming a universe that someone could hold in their hands and bring into everyday life.
The world gave me so much, and I wanted to answer through creation
The world has given me light, color, and moments of unexpected understanding. I gathered them through painting until, one day, they grew into a deck of cards.
For me, making art is a way of giving thanks.
Cosmic Echo was never intended to provide fixed answers or predict what will happen next. It is closer to a keepsake: proof that the world once passed through my life gently, and that through these paintings I might pass gently through someone else’s life too.
From individual paintings to a work you can live with
Images alone were not enough. I hoped people could do more than collect them; I wanted the cards to become something they could spend time with.
The 60 artworks were organized into 12 connected themes. Alongside each image is a short text and an invitation to keep looking, writing, or creating.
You may simply look at one painting, read one sentence, write down your first association, or follow the image with an ordinary pen and draw another line. There is no single correct interpretation. The image opens a door; you are the one who steps through it.
Hand-drawn images and the tools behind them
I drew every image in the deck by hand on an iPad using Procreate. The digital medium allowed me to retain the flow, transparency, and open space of watercolor while continually refining the relationship between light and color.
I also used AI as a thinking and proofreading tool while organizing the writing and overall structure. It helped me clarify language and check the framework, but it could not replace the parts that truly shape the work: what I have lived through, why an image moves me, how I choose a color, and what I finally decide to leave on the page.
The heart of a work is never the tool. It is what the artist has genuinely lived and is willing to offer.
The accident that changed “No.” into “On.”
During printing, a small accident occurred: “No.”, intended to mark the card number, was printed as “On.”
At first it looked like an error. But when I saw the word again, it felt unexpectedly true to the deck. “On” suggests opening, connection, and being present now.
I chose to keep it. It reminds me that a work is not truly complete when it leaves the printer, but when someone opens it, sees it, and allows it into their life.
In the end, it is a mirror
I hope Cosmic Echo can become a small patch of starlight on your desk.
You do not need to use it every day or follow any fixed rule. Perhaps on a rushed morning, or an evening without an answer, you pause to look at one image, read one sentence, and listen to what you truly want to say.
The cards will not choose a direction for you. They are a mirror, giving the feelings, questions, and quiet light already within you a visible shape.
This is the echo I wanted to send into the world.