http://www.sonofsoy.com things i've seen : rick elizaga Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:07:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sonofsoy.com/2009/05/01/places/lily-pond-at-chichu-art-museum/ http://www.sonofsoy.com/2009/05/01/places/lily-pond-at-chichu-art-museum/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 01:30:25 +0000 Rick http://www.sonofsoy.com/?p=1340 Along the sidewalk from the visitor’s center to the main museum, there’s a lovely series of ponds inspired by Monet’s water lily paintings. Inside the museum, four to five Monets hang in a naturally lighted, heavenly white space with a floor of small rounded cubes of marble. Before coming to Naoshima I’d only seen water lily paintings in books. I was shocked at how beautiful, and large, they are in person.

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