Jul 122014
At the end of my evening walk, the sun was low in the sky, perhaps a half hour before sunset. Walking back toward Rico Rd., my attention was caught by a shriveled brown leaf lying on the grass. I got down onto the ground with my camera at ground level, and started to explore its possibilities as a screen for Balinese shadow play. (For those unfamiliar with Balinese shadow puppet theater, here is a great website on the topic.) The result is a tiny landscape of shadow, color and texture, created by the various shadows on the leaf, a grass blade standing just in front of it, and the textures and colors of the leaf itself. How many such miniature worlds of the imagination do we pass by every day?
