“Listen People” by Kim Ch’on-taek (1725-1766)

Listen people, wherever you are,
please attend to these words:
Will your youth last forever?
Will your white hair turn black again?
Life speeds by like a dream,
why not fill each minute with joy?

Jiyeon Song at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California has designed One Day Poem Pavilion, an experiment in experiential typography. Light shining through complex perforations in a dome produces shifting lines of poetry on the ground. The poetry’s form forces the audience to reflect upon (individual) experience, time, and “the finite nature of human life.”

See the piece in motion or watch a slide show of photos up close.

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