Towering trees and flowers
From black to silver
This picture features an elderly couple taking an afternoon stroll with bright-coloured flowers in the foreground. I was genuinely inspired because it reminds me of how the lapse of time seems to have little effect on nature (hence "from black to silver"). Man has a short lifespan and therefore a brief presence compared to trees, which may still be erect after centuries. Also, this picture conjures up a painting our tutor has shown us in class, namely “Wanderer Above the Mist” by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, which depicts a man standing atop a high mountain before a great mass of fog, diminutive in the enclosure of nature.
I can’t help but to think of how vulnerable and insignificant man must be in the history of time, when juxtaposed with the eternity and vastness of nature. Yet, our inflated ego has incessantly led to the delusion that man is of the utmost importance in the world.
Chan Sau Yee 2A/07
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