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I took this photograph in the summer of 2004 in the Niigata region of Japan. I attended a workshop given by my tutor, at the time, Shin Egashira. We designed a movie screen. The screen itself was made of hemp rope (the detail seen). I think the photo is beautiful. The view through the rope to the misty sky in the background provides a dreamlike quality and at first glance the rooftop harks back to a time past long, long ago.

The tiny island set in the Kornati National Park of Croatia is called Fafarikulac. The sea surrounding it so crystal blue that you can see down many metres. It takes me about 45 minutes to swim around it. We catch fish in the morning, grill it in the evening. After dinner and libations we dive off the boat moored to the dock by the light of the moonlight. Whenever I see this photo I go back to that summer.

Shigeru Ban’s Curtain Wall House in Nagano is so beautiful. The breeze causes the ‘walls’ to billow beyond the footprint of the building and over the street. Imagine lounging in your kimono.

I took this photo in Yokohama during our unit trip this year. We were exploring Chinatown and looking at lighting in the area. I love this photo. It is just a view into a kitchen but the steam rising from the cooking lends a mysterious and ethereal quality.

David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist(Pool with Two Figures), 1971. The use of paint to show the reflective properties of the water in the pool is magical.