»Octavia Boulevard and Rose

This sign presents the passer-by with two options: risk certain injury and stand in the road; or trample the flowers and stand in the foliage. To read it, I walked around the other side, where the text is duplicated, and wondered: why bother installing the sign in this position? Why not rotate it ninety degrees, so that both faces are easily visible to pedestrians?

The art which it describes are the ghinlon / transcopes of Po Shu Wang. I do enjoy sitting in the median amongst start-stop city traffic, sucking in the exhaust and contemplating light refracting through the 'scopes.