Revisiting an old phrase for upcoming exhibitions

风声雨声读书声声声入耳
家事国事天下事事事关心

 

This was a phrase I came up with many many years ago. I thought it would be a good idea to use this phrase for upcoming exhibitions. However, the challenge is that there are two characters that keep repeating: 声 and 事. It is very difficult to create a good piece of calligraphy when the same character keeps appearing, but I want to take up this challenge.

 

At the same time, due to paper size, it is just not practical to do so sometimes, so I decided to change it a bit for an upcoming piece. This is the draft.

 

As you can see, I changed the phrase to

风声雨声读书声千声入耳
家事国事天下事万事关心

to avoid three consecutive 声 and 事 when written using 半切 hansetsu paper.

 

For 二六 (2x6 feet) paper, I should be keeping the phrase in its original form, but using a layout that avoid grouping the three consecutive 声 and 事 together.