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21/04/2006: "CHINESE TEXT"

South Australian shark-bite recipient Brian Rodger has a couple of Chinese words nicely framed in his lounge room. The meaning being something to do with travels and thoughts within.

This inspired me to photograph and present the above handwriting made by an artist this week.

The original was on a large sheet of cheap paper simply taped to the wall of a building, with many more. New works were in progress.

Taking a guess that the words were meaningful, I made a photograph.

It might even make a nice decoration for your room, thanks to that original thought from Brian Rodger.

An approximate translation:

"The life have thousand thousand year,
But this human body never again,
Human life but only a hundred,
Today is easy fly away,
Lucky to be alive,
You have to know that,
The joy of life and don't pass life fruitlessly."

To read the poem, word by word, is from right to left, top to bottom.