"The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks!"    

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Deceased French Photographer

In our headline Mr. Cartier-Bresson scorns the work of American photographers Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. His comment is sarcastic but contains a relevant question: could there be any meaning in photographing the natural architecture of stones, which are really nothing more than piles of aggregated unconscious minerals?

We can identify the subject of my “Boulder Still Life” without much brain work. It exists in the configuration or pattern arranged without human assistance, its geometry somehow graceful and intriguing, in itself giving pleasure like a well-formed but slightly dissonant melody.

Is there anything beyond that?

It is possible our two Americans understood something implicitly, which the Eastern sages say explicitly, and Cartier-Bresson perhaps missed completely — the insentient world teaches sentient beings the deeper way of the universe, beneath concept and beyond verbal expression.