Fading Tracks

Sordidior caeno cum sit toga, calceus autem candidior prima sit tibi, Cinna, nive: deiecto quid, inepte, pedes perfundis amictu? Collige, Cinna, togam; calceus ecce perit. When your toga, Cinna, is dirtier than mud, And your shoe whiter than the new-born snow, Why, foolish man, do you let your garment hang down over your feet? Gather up your toga, Cinna; or your shoe will be quite spoilt.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 7, XXXIII
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker

艾未未 (Ài Wèiwèi), Laundromat, 2012. Photo credit: 艾未未 (Ài Wèiwèi) Studio.