Several days ago I made this photograph on the beach... while looking at the trunk of a nearly fallen palm tree. These are the roots and some trapped leaf litter.
They reminded me of how some contemporary art resembles designs and patterns that we see in nature. When viewed close up, natural objects and collections of these objects, formed by natural process, take on an appearance, which to our eyes, may suggest sensations or other objects far removed from what they were originally. This abstraction via magnification is a common technique in contemporary art. Similarly by taking one aspect of an object in nature and repeating that aspect can yield very pleasing results as well.
I was reminded of the work of Cy Twombly whose "scribbles" as seen below have some
passing resemblance to the imaged abstraction of the roots.
Some of our guests are painters... I wonder what kind of sources of inspiration they have taken back home with them from their time here?
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