Pierre Bonnard is an artist that I have long admired, not only for his paintings of gardens but for his photographs of them as well. While his paintings of gardens are lush and colorful his photographs of them are dark, painterly and mysteriously seductive.
Bonnard's exploration of the photographic snapshot or l’instantanée is something that I have thought of while working on Moon Gate. I decided to look at his photographs and paintings this morning. Even without color in these images you can feel the warmth of the sun and the cool of the shade and hear things rustling in the bushes and birds singing. Color is wonderful but sometimes its absence is even better.
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