hexapetala
Blue in Green
The rules are simple:
– vertical lines
– a stick
– tatami perspective
I see all that – though I won’t be the first to admit I’m not an expert on tatami perspective. And my mathematical brain could argue that it all depends on the height of the person kneeling on the tatami mat. My pedantic side might protest that it should be at the precise height that the Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu would have knelt on his tatami mat. And what about the thickness of the mat?
But that doesn’t matter.
Go away, pedantic side.
Be quiet, mathematical brain.
We’re here for another reason. We’re here to admire the muted colours of the blue and green. To feel the texture of the jeans and be stabbed by one of the thorns on the stick. To imagine the sound of bicycle tyres, creating curves in the surface of the gravelled path as they circumvent the photographer who may — or may not — be kneeling on a tatami mat.
We are here to admire one of the many ways the rules of this Iron Photographer has taken us.
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