There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
(Oscar Wilde)



What's it all about?
Landscape photography and the idea of nature?
Nature exposed to human imagination instead of nature itself?
CinemaScope?
Unanswered questions?
Love?
Stories of love eluded?
Desire?
The Book of Changes?
64 questions like Koans?
Music?
So much more?



What is the I Ging actually? If we inquire as to the philosophy that pervades the book, we can confine ourselves to a few basically important concepts.

The underlying idea of the whole is the idea of change. It is related in the Analects that Confucius, standing by a river, said: «Everything flows on and on like this river, without pause, day and night.» The attention no longer focuses on transitory individual things but on the immutable, eternal law at work in all change. This law is the «Tao» of Laotse, the principle of the one in the many.

The second theme fundamental to the Book of Changes is its theory of ideas. The eight trigrams are images not so much of objects as of states of change. This view is associated with the concept that every event in the visible world is the effect of an «image», that is, of an idea in the unseen world.

(Excerpts from: Richard Wilhelm, Introduction to The Book of Changes)