Things I can't photograph...

Things I can’t photograph…

15 Stones…

Recently, I bumped into an artist friend who had just come back from Japan. She told me about the various temples she had visited and this story stuck in my mind; One of the Japanese gardens had fifteen stones perfectly placed so that from no particular spot in the garden was it possible to see them all at once. Always a pillar, a tree or some other ‘obstacle’ left only fourteen stones visible at any given time from any position. I immediately loved the concept. We never really see the full story… the fifteenth stone is sometimes simply hidden from view.

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