A quick glance captured by lens at Kairaku-en in Mito, Japan. (July '09)
Strolling down the windy paths of this tranquil garden, famed as one of Japan's top 3 gardens, a momentary glimpse to the left appeared unexpectedly similar in composition to my mum's painting, currently hanging in my house in Guatemala.
A first since she was a teenager, oil painting by Heather Friedman (my mum). (c.1999)
My mum has never been to Mito.
To me, the feeling evoked from the 2 images are one and the same...
...and, I find myself questioning the unspoken relationship between these two images sparked by my serendipitous gravitation to that spot in that garden at that moment on a spontaneous day trip in a remote and unfamiliar part of a land far away.
They are definitely a reflection.
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