Reflection art
(Upside down view of the Lingering Garden: Suzhou, China)
Before you begin to feel too weird, I have flipped this image upside down for effect – I think it gives it an impressionist spin. I was rooting through some of the image backlog of the past months and found some really interesting images I haven’t even remembered I have. Here is the first, taken in early November whilst Ying’s mum was visiting.
The reflection of this building in the water was so vivid underneath its true counterpart, it was dazzling – even this image cannot recreate the arresting colour in the water. It looked as if oil paint had been slopped into the water directly and merged, mixing a water painting out of the pond itself. If I had touched the water, I would have half expected to have colour dripping from my fingers.
This garden, one of my favourites (so far) also boasted rockeries and caves, waterfalls and an enormous collection of Bonsai trees – midget shrubs trained into place with shears. There are few things I have found more strange than walking through a miniature forest of ancient trees that don’t even reach waist height. When I have more time, I will go back and treat you to a selection of funny little trees, somehow both bombastic and at the same time, insignificant and minute.
