Problem: The rice paddy in your backyard vegetable garden is just plain blah. You need to spice it up.
Solution:
Unlike the grass art I posted last Friday, which was made with varying the amount of light given to the grass, this pattern is made with planting different kinds of rice to make the pattern. The technique may be more conventional, but the result is still pretty cool…
Image spotted on the Gamil Design blog [ source ]
I should TOTALLY be growing rice…there’s about five inches of rain standing in the garden bed this morning. I’m hoping for some sunshine pretty soon!
Oh, but this project…that’s amazingly cool! (It doesn’t always have to be about me, eh?) Do we have any idea what it says?
Since my Japanese is about as unpassable as my Urdu and Nahuatl I have no idea what these say–maybe it’s time to take some Japanese lessons. The site where these images originally came from, 3 blog generations back is even less informative if you don’t read the language: http://www.am.askanet.ne.jp/~tugaru/z-inakadate.htm
The image that’s reproduced, though, is Hiroshige’s famous woodcut, The Great Wave. Like many art icons it can survive translation to different media, whether they be t-shirts, handbags–or rice paddies… (In fact, one of the other paddies reproduces Leonardo’s Mona Lisa.)