Reading poems under daylight

by geyawei on 2008-04-19 11:42:27

Although it may seem a bit cruel to say that all Chinese poets are dead, but since things like the pear blossom style of poetry can appear, there's no need to respect so-called poets... Let's move on to the main topic. A certain artist who loves poetry designed this very interesting performance art. Simply put, it involves engraving an entire poem onto a stone slab and placing the slab outside, so that as people stand in the shadow cast by the slab, they will gradually read the entire poem, line by line, as the sun moves across the sky. This creates an engaging experience with the following English poem:

Listen people wherever you are

Will your white hair turn black again?

Will your youth last forever?

Life speeds by like a dream.

Why not fill each minute with joy?