I'm no artist myself, but I recently came across something I thought could be made into a good wallpaper. It's a block of text which is going to be put at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a nuclear waste disposal facility, to warn away future generations in case the information of it's existence is lost to humanity. (the waste is dangerous for 10,000 years, after all)

I was thinking it would look good center aligned with a desolate or depressing landscape in the background. Here's the message:

This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location… it increases toward a center… the center of danger is here… of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

Yes, I read about this on Digg yesterday I think.

what's really sad is I can see the image in my head of a bunch of explorers/archeologists going "oh look! a curse! ha ha. let's see what's under here".

i think it strange that the message is almost child like in it's simplicity, are they expecting future generations to dumb down?

If e-language is any precursor .. then .. yes

good point - well presented.

... but of course they will all still read and speak English.

Child-like statements are often the most profound; I find this to be true for this