Friday, 1 May 2020

Orchid Calligraphy

Phalaenopsis orchid
Top right, down. Top left down:
Tian Di Ru Xiong Yi
Wen Zhang Sheng Feng Lei

Literally: 
Heaven Earth Enter Pearl Breast
Essay Makes Wind Thunder

More Felicitously (perhaps; my translation):
When you understand the ways of the world
you’ll write groundbreaking essays. 

Calligraphy by Xue Song, “The Sky and the Earth”, on a canvas made from leftover scraps of his burned out gallery in Beijing, and the paint made from the ashes. Purchased at Zee Stone Galleries, May 2004.