photo caption: Nature morte, (L) Jeff Koons, (R) J. Galligan and Peter Hall
No one has ever successfully
painted or photographed
a redwood tree.
From them comes
silence and awe.
It's not only their unbelievable stature,
nor the color which
seems to shift
and vary
under your eyes, no,
they are not like any trees
we know,
they are ambassadors
from another time.
John Steinbeck [excerpt] pg 143 Really? No painting? No photograph? Ever? J.Galligan
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