Perspective & Proportion

Mary Cornish
from "The Laws of Japanese Painting"
in Red Studio

If a mountain is ten feet high, the trees
should be one foot, the horse one inch, and a man
the size of a bean.

The image of the bean brings to mind for me those primary school projects where a bean is sprouted in a glass and we could see the hairs on the roots and the leaves unfold from the cotyledon. Without proper soil of course they perished. Of course any plant eventually perishes. Such are the thoughts that grow from contemplating man as bean.

And so for day 2059
02.08.2012