Well we're just going to file this one under "one of the coolest things we've seen so far this year." An artist has been looking at everyday household items,
Every Chinese character is composed of one or a few line-drawings (radicals). These line-drawings tell you a picture-story which conveys the meaning of the Chinese character. One understands the meaning of the character if he understands the picture-story of the character.
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