Secondhand Tang Poem No 1
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Observations: Secondhand Tang Poem No. 4
There are two editions for this print and all other prints in the Secondhand Tang Poems series. Each print in the edition of 15 is 90 x 75 cm (approx. 36 x 30 inches). Each print in the edition of 6 is 108 cm x 90 cm (approx. 42 x 36). This series has been creeted by Maleonn from a meticulous assemblage of all the elements found in the image into a real-world installation that he then photographs.
Click on the first icon below for a larger version of the work and on the second icon for information on the Tang Poems in Chinese culture, on Maleonn's engagement with them, and on the English-language translations provided by Craig Scott Gallery of the lines of poetry found in eacd work.
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The last two lines of the following eight-line poem appear in Maleonn’s work:
Li Shangyin
TO ONE UNNAMED I
You said you would come, but you did not, and you left me with no other trace
than the moonlight on your tower at the fifth-watch bell.
I cry for you forever gone, I cannot waken yet.
I try to read your hurried note, I find the ink too pale.
...Blue burns your candle in its kingfisher-feather lantern
and a sweet breath steals from your hibiscus-broidered curtain.
But far beyond my reach is the Enchanted Mountain,
and you are on the other side, ten thousand peaks away.
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