神话传说中的天梯多是高山与巨树，梯子是一个日常实用的事物，当它进入到文学艺术里的时候，往往携带着深厚的文化信息和审美意蕴：脚落大地（初心所在），手向天宇（梦想所及）。伸向天空的手是儿童的手，这是童年，美好的童年能为成长的人生提供光明和力量，而更多的人是在用半生甚至一生去治愈童年。我们爬天梯，爬着爬着就会明白：真正的目的不是那个目标，而是爬着本身。梯子可上可下，对于人的生命历程来说，它只是一种“通过”的过程，不以高喜，不以低悲，最终仍然要回到平地，平视所要面对的一切。

In legend and myth, ladders to the sky often take the form of mountains or giant trees. The ladder is an everyday implement. When it enters art and literature, it often carries a wealth of cultural information and aesthetic implications: its feet are on the ground, while its hands reach up to the sky, as if chasing dreams. These hands reaching up to the sky are children’s hands. This is childhood. A wonderful childhood can provide people with light and energy in their adult lives, but most people spend their lives healing their childhood trauma. As we climb these ladders to the sky, we realize that the real objective is not the one we were seeking, but the climb itself. When it comes to the trajectory of an individual life, it is just a passage. There is no reason to rejoice in heights, or to lament lows. In the end, we all return to the flat ground, and must face everything on a level field.

艺术家虞华1984年出生于云南楚雄，2006年毕业于云南大学艺术学院美术学专业的云南青年艺术家。虞华的作品艺术形式主要以油画、雕塑为主，曾在北京、昆明、上海、银川、河北、台湾等地展出，作品并参加过美国、法国、瑞士、比利时等地多个群展。其作品被上海美术馆、中国美术馆、美国纽约大学美术馆、银川当代美术馆等收藏。

Artist Yu Hua was born in Chuxiong, Yunnan Province, in 1984, and graduated from the Yunnan University School of Arts and Design in 2006. Yu Hua mainly works in oil painting and sculpture. Her works have been exhibited across China, in such places as Beijing, Kunming, Shanghai, Yinchuan, Hebei, and Taiwan, and abroad, in the United States, France, Switzerland, and Belgium. Her works have been collected by the Shanghai Art Museum, the National Art Museum of China, the New York University Art Museum, and the Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art.