Naar Engeland

Superior gardens are composed of Glooms and Solitudes
and not of plants and trees.

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Detached sentences on gardening

Painting the walk

Where the viewer is solitary, imagination is the scale.

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Detached sentences on gardening

Voorzienigheid

Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake

Wallace Stevens, Notes toward a supreme fiction
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Walking the painting

In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four
hills and clouds.

Wallace Stevens, Of the surface of things