Days [ ) Cherry trees | Pablo Neruda / Nobuyoshi Araki
photos by Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo, 2013
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Pablo Neruda
What attracts you to the cherry blossoms in particular?
Nobuyoshi Araki: Flowers are there for me to love, and cherry blossoms are the top of their kind. I can’t quite put my affection for them into words, and that’s why it continues to hold a special place in my photographs. When standing under the old trees, the layers of flower petals look like women’s underwear, transparent to the sky above.
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
La vie est une cerise
La mort est un noyau
L'amour un cerisier
Jacques Prévert
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