Outdoors inspirations

 

 

It is always inspiring not to look at the way it appears at first glance, but at what we may find when our imagination is let go free. For, to paraphrase Mark Twain, “Vision is probably the art of seeing invisible things”.

When we take the time to read the great book of Nature, we find lines, curves, shapes, textures, infinite details, exquisite curiosities, hidden everywhere. Nature is music and poetry with a meaning far more deep than everything man is able to create.

In the words of Gauguin “The artist must not copy nature but take elements of it to create another one”. Gaugin's taking elements to create another is my guide and mantra, my way of writing visual poetry when I am anywhere outdoors.

Nature offers infinite peculiarities and displays endless realms beyond the obvious things. They stimulate our curiosity and amaze our quotidian mind; that Nature can offer us all this for free and for our greatest delight.