At the Miho Museum: Habits of Seeing
Rosemary Hill, 22 May 2025
Difficulty is a key principle of the Picturesque. In a landscape garden, the eye must never be allowed to take in the whole view at once. The visitor passes through successive scenes by way of transitions that are often carefully complicated. Stepping stones across a stream are slightly uneven, the gap in a hedge is too narrow to pass through without a small push, the scale shifts from...