Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Thursday, August 24, 2023

What is worth more?

Art or life? Shouting with her fist raised in the air, the pink-haired climate activist turns around, throwing one can of tomato soup after another at Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers. A pin-drop silence envelops the gallery.

She glances around the room for a moment or two, as though interested in these confused but curious people. Then with legs crossed, she sits silently on the floor and glues her hands to the wall. The clicking of cameras becomes loud ... and louder. 

beams of sunlight
a polar bear and her cub
drift on an ice-floe