quaecumque vera

quaecumque vera

diploma ceremony

did not get to receive my diploma at the ceremoy

I was doing my postgraduate studies at Edinburgh College of Art

years later

immagining myself at the ceremony on the back panel of my bookshelf

recieving the BFA in Latin

with the famous motto of the U of A

quaecumque vera

happy childhood memory

remember also my childhood

on this day of the epiphany

in a mirror

on which painted image of my mother 

and I

when we were at the tiger balm garden of 

old Hong Kong

as if to say

the old memory

signed with truth

is the most beautiful

chinese calligraphy

 twist and turn

in almost faded ink

saying

admist the willow forest

a study hall

( from the poem by Liu Xin Xu of Tang Dynasty )

I placed this old writing I did

next to an old pastel portrait

of my father

as today 

is his birthday ( 27th November lunar calendar )

1-6-2016

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