Photographer Lee Ka-sing's friend may indeed have built "a small fishpond" at the foot of "one of those tall trees," but it's a fishpond you take, of pictorial necessity, on faith. I love photographs in which you are told there are things in them you cannot actually see for yourself. Photography and Faith. Blink of Eye and Word of Mouth.
What I like here is the green oval at the lower left--which I assume is the rim of a green plastic pot in which the photographer's friend seems to have planted a bamboo tree. But I divest myself straightaway of the pot or bucket. I keep the green oval. An oval is more magical than a circle and green is more vegetative than any other colour, and so I am more or less free to imagine the green oval as a portal--the mouth of a tunnel through which--who knows?--Alice's White Rabbit might appear from or disappear into. The White Rabbit or one of those moldy denizens of the Tolkien books. Anyhow, the ring seems like a genuine garden secret. Forget the pool.. . .. .
