The Zoom

Haedina tibi pelle contegenti nudae tempora verticemque calvae, festive tibi, Phoebe, dixit ille, qui dixit caput esse calceatum. When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cap of black neats’ leather; He was very wag, who to you said, “Why do you wear your slippers on your head?”.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 12, XLV
English translation by William Hay

劉勃麟 (Liú Bólín), Hiding In The City No. 16 – People’s Policeman, 2006. Credit: Eli Klein Gallery.