Postby Walter Glover » 01 May 2019, 06:53
NOTHING that is an evolving, living organism (including the planet) can be totally controlled by human intervention. Not even our own brief lives. Once upon a time this tree was admired as a sapling. Now its appeal and aesthetic to something totally different. What right do the people of the present have to curtail tose changes and deny the people of the future the beauty of the next stage of the trees earthly journey.
I had a magnificent book by Kenro Izu of very large format platinum/palladium prints of flowers wilting and decaying. The robust and plump bloom of youth so apparent in fresh cut flowers was not Izu's motif, but rather he chose to venerate the yielding, vascular and sinuous reality of maturity and beyong. He said he was strongly responding to Zen influences.
For me, barricading the tree to temporarily shield it from the inevitable is akin to silicone implants and botox falsifying the apparent staus of youth and vitality.
Lovely sensuous subject well portrayed again Maris.
Walter Glover
"We see things not as they are. We see them as we are."
— Emanuel Kant