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wrinkles
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Lines in the face, tattoos of aging.
Life is proved upon the body
Like needle jabs from a sightless machine.
The older one gets, the more one is conscious of aging. We can barely remember childhood innocence and exuberance. We are surprised by the youthful vitality and unmarked face when we see earlier photos of ourselves. When we look in the mirror, we reluctantly acknowledge the aging mask. It seems that there is no escaping the marks of life.
Every experience that we have, everything that we do and think is registered upon us as surely as the steady embroidery of a tattoo artist. But to a large degree, the pattern and picture that will emerge is up to us. If we go to a tattoo artist, it is we who select the picture. In life, it we who select what we will become by the actions we perform. There is no reason to go through life thoughtlessly, to let accident shape us. That is like allowing oneself to be tattooed by a man with no sight. How can you help but turn old and ugly?
Whether we emerge beautiful or ugly is our sole responsibility.
wrinkles
365 Tao
Deng Ming-Dao
Daily Meditations
Portrait of an Ancestor
li jin
tao water gallery
li jin was born in1958 China, and graduated from Tianjing Academy of Fine Arts in 1983 with B.A. degree of Chinese Painting. Now he is teaching and living in China.
I have been searching for new artwork and found this interesting contemporary art from China. The work has a new perspective with a knowledge of the ancient art. I do hope you enjoy it! Visit the main site for more of this work, or to see the worlds of other contemporary Asian painters. www.taowatergallery.com
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