On the Silences in Dry Japanese Gardens
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https://doi.org/10.5821/palimpsesto.15.4808Keywords:
Karesansui, Japanese Gardens, Zen, Ryoanji.Abstract
The term Karesansui alludes to a particular genre of Japanese gardens composed by rocks, gravel and sand.
Through gestures interlaced upon silence, the garden yields a plastic communion vis-à-vis its beholder: confronted to a stage where Nature depicts the transient passage of seasons, man is faced with the emotion of its own ephemeral existence.
Threshold of these silences is the pale trace of the artist’s authorship, conscious and humble recognition of human condition. And so the garden, urged of persistent renewal to overcome its natural decline, reveals itself as never ending and imperfect, thus solemnizing a method to measuring time when the solely permanent is change. Hence the place silently renounces to geometry, to weave asymmetry and void into the utmost refined equilibrium as expression of infinitude. And the anti-representation shaping the fourth silence: abstraction as incarnation of the intrinsic value of the motif, of its true essence, of its metaphysical existence.
Gifted by its silences, the visitor enters into the appreciation of a garden which embraces him as its temporary guest within a space which, notwithstanding its impermanent condition, procures us its fleeting beholders with a taste of eternity.
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