The Rock Garden
When we came back from Japan, I showed off my photographs with not a little bit of pride, I was so pleased with how well most of them came out. But at the same time, I couldn�t help but contain just a little tinge of guilt, considering how little of a hand I really had in that. The light in Japan � just everywhere somehow, even in a cramped little tatami room in a tiny little inn � was inexplicably, universally gorgeous. In the end I just basked in it.
These images, worked from a photograph from the trip, show a young woman looking contemplatively at the rock garden at Ryoanji.
A pencil study and a gouache execution. The study is about 8�x6�, the painting about 11�x8�. Both on paper.