Wave-washed Sands: an experience with an ancient Chinese poem

Yuli Cai

I want to translate a Chinese poem not into words with another language but into universal feelings the words evoke.

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Poems are written in words. But what stay with us are the emotions they provoke. Can I make a kinetic sculpture that can represent this inexpressible nature of one of my favourite poem?

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