Performance, on Show

Monty Don
Japanese Gardens: A Journey

Ikebana, like so much of Japanese life and everything in their gardens, is a performance, and the more that the skills needed to create that performance are on show, the more they are appreciated.

Like the commas in this sentence, the negative space in ikebana performs an appreciated skill.

And so for day 3009
08.03.2015

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