Monday, April 12, 2010

Animated water

click this to see the animation






This old guy was using a specially customised plastic tube to write on the stone pavements and street furnishings with water. Its a practice that I have heard of before but never seen- scholars used to do it to save on ink and paper- the art of calligraphy is more of a physical ritual than an act of writing... so writing in water made perfect sense. The artist song dong appropriated this method for his piece in times square

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