Text: Su Hui’s matrix poem, Star Gauge

4th century poet Su Hui’s embroidered, 29 x 29 character, 5 color grid-matrix poem, Star Gauge.

Read an interview with artist Jen Bervin about the poem here.

Translator David Hinton on the poem here, and his translation here.

Tagged: 4th century, chinese, embroidery, generative art, matrix, open work, palindrome, poetry, translation, women poets

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