Characters in the artwork
1, Golden or Gold
which is small seal script of the character.
The top a cover and a short - means "contain", the bottom two vertical short line are actually two dots in any other scripts. Because small seal script has no dot, all dots are replaced by short lines. the rest part means Soil. The character means that the soil contains or has gold (the two dots are gold particles found in soil).
2, Autumn
The left is character Rice Crop, the top is ear of the rice in autumn. The right it character Fire, two dots are flame, and the center is firewood.
Chinese believe that autumn is golden because the ripe grains are yellow, the clouds are red just like fire. So Chinese call autumn as golden autumn.
I repeated the character Rich Crop, and Fire to form a three dimentional wild field, let audience feel the visual impact of Golden Autumn.
The characters in the artwork
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Explanation for the characters in the artwork from top to bottom.
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The top is a person who is running, the bottom are three feet. Why three not two? Because when something is moving very fast, you could not see it clearly, such as the steel bars on bicycle wheels, you only see the blur of them. Ancient Chinese use three feet to represent the person is running too fast to see his feet clearly.
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The left is a boat, the right top is fire (torch), the middle are two hands holding the torch, the bottom is a horse. Actually, the boat + torch + hands form a character of King, who is riding a horse gallops ahead, leading a big army forward.
家 (jiā, "home/family") = Roof + Pig The component 宝盖 (the "roof" radical) represents a pigsty or shelter, while 豕 ...
