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Marc Peter Keane on Finding Peace of Mind in Japanese Gardens

At a Distance

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How to Draw a Stone

In the garden i did for you in the country, where stones are placed in a more or less empty courtyard, you can think of the placement of those stones in that space like painting ink dabs on white paper. And that's the way these gardens are designed, just as if you're painting black inkdrops on white paper to create not a symmetrical, well balanced thing, but a very dynamic, balanced arrangement of stones. Does it always begin with drawing? For you it never begins with drawing? Well, nowadays, of course does. What it begins with is a single stone. Traditionally, you have a whole bunch of stones on sight. You see one stone that speaks to

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