The water garden really was the outdoor studio he had always trumpeted. He dug the pond and altered its contours like a drawing; he diverted rivers, planted trees, sketched out curving paths, strewed ...
“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...
In the Mekong Delta, farmers and locals still gather the flowers on wooden boats. Now, the ritual’s also become a photo op.