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Punggol beach, Singapore | 1
This beach is filled with a lot of boulders rounded by the ebb and flow of sea water around them. The moment I laid my eyes on the beach for the first time an image I had seen before popped into my head. It was an image of Ryōan-ji a Japanese rock garden [1]. The images aren't nearly as carefully composed as the rock garden, after all I couldn't physically move any of the boulders, all I could control was the perspective.
I subscribe to what Nitschke wrote: "The garden at Ryōan-ji does not symbolize anything, or more precisely, to avoid any misunderstanding, the garden of Ryōan-ji does not symbolize, nor does it have the value of reproducing a natural beauty that one can find in the real or mythical world. I consider it to be an abstract composition of "natural" objects in space, a composition whose function is to incite meditation."
I hope these images approximate the feelings which the rock garden incites.
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[1]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dan-ji
[2]: For those interested in Zen buddhism:
Punggol beach, Singapore | 1
This beach is filled with a lot of boulders rounded by the ebb and flow of sea water around them. The moment I laid my eyes on the beach for the first time an image I had seen before popped into my head. It was an image of Ryōan-ji a Japanese rock garden [1]. The images aren't nearly as carefully composed as the rock garden, after all I couldn't physically move any of the boulders, all I could control was the perspective.
I subscribe to what Nitschke wrote: "The garden at Ryōan-ji does not symbolize anything, or more precisely, to avoid any misunderstanding, the garden of Ryōan-ji does not symbolize, nor does it have the value of reproducing a natural beauty that one can find in the real or mythical world. I consider it to be an abstract composition of "natural" objects in space, a composition whose function is to incite meditation."
I hope these images approximate the feelings which the rock garden incites.
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[1]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dan-ji
[2]: For those interested in Zen buddhism: