More confusion

If you walk into the Arboretum from the Mendum Street gate, after about 20 paces you follow a path to the right - it’s a quite obvious, wood-chip highway of a path. After going down a set of log steps, off to the left, you’ll find this fungus, sitting next to an oak tree, if I remember correctly. It’s huge, or so it seems to my non-expert self, over a foot across.

My work usually highlights enigmatic natural views, like for example reflections in water or snow falling from trees, which I sometimes manipulate to enhance the enigma. But here is something that didn’t really require manipulation. In that sense, it felt too easy, more like a snapshot than a work of art. After all, all I did was see it.

But perhaps I’m devaluing this because I didn’t have to do much to make it amazing. In truth, the key task of an artist is to notice. The color, the texture, the lines, the form, they were all just sitting there waiting for someone to notice. And, luckily for me, I did!