So she would have a whole night’s shelter, even if it was on slightly false pretenses, Sophie thought drowsily. Since Howl was such a wicked man, it probably served him right to be imposed upon. But she intended to be well away from here by the time Howl came back and raised objections. She looked sleepily and slyly across at the apprentice. It rather surprised her to find him such a nice, polite boy.

圆体字Day42

The Champa Flower
Suppousing I became a champa flower,
just for fun, and grew on a branch high
up that tree, and shook in the wind with laughter and danced upon the newly
budded leaves, would you know me,
mother?
You would call, “Baby, where are you?”
and I should laugh to myself and
keep quite quite.
I should slyly open my petals and
watch you at your work.

金色花
假如我变成了一朵金色花，
为了好玩， 长在树的高枝上，
笑嘻嘻地在空中摇摆， 又在新叶上跳舞，
妈妈，你会认识我吗？
你要是叫道：“孩子，你在哪里呀？”
我暗暗地在那里匿笑，却一声儿不响。
我要悄悄地开放花瓣儿，看着你工作。

p1 Baldessari came upon a sheet left in a classroom that dispensed advice to artists. [Tips] is one of his breakthrough works: it abandons familiar imagery, adopts language as its vehicle, and slyly suggests that behind some supposedly great art may be merely a series of cynical ploys.

p2The hard-edge painter Al Held is reported to have said that "Conceptual art is just pointing at things." Taking this accusation literally, Baldessari decided to create a series of Commissioned Painting, hiring sign painters to paint photorealistic images of a hand pointing to an object. The act of pointing demands the viewer's attention to be directed to a specific area, but the genius of the piece lies in the questions it leaves us with: why should we look here, and not elsewhere? Do images always direct us to one, and only one message? Although this painting includes the caption "A Painting By George Walker," we also understand that the idea was Baldessari's, hence we are led to questioning the nature of artistic authorship.

p3The imagery focuses on a work place achievement, such as an opening ceremony or the successful completion of a project. Blocking to mock its absurdity, its character as banal ritual.