Fuji from Fujiyama canal Iwahichi<

📝ONGO's Reflection

This painting by Lilla Cabot Perry holds Mount Fuji rising far beyond a canal. It is a scene a Western painter gazed upon while staying in Japan, yet the heart that looks up at a great mountain from afar is the same for anyone. I see here what becomes visible only when distance is kept. Draw too close to Fuji and you see only the slope underfoot; its whole form cannot be grasped. Only at a distance does the whole at last enter the eye at once. Human affairs are the same. Too close, the outline blurs. Only when you step back does the shape grow clear.