Elemental Insights

摘要

Sometimes the simplest ideas shine the most brilliantly. Take water, for example: For all the complexity of "shaping" it with hydraulics, chemistry, structural engineering and dealing with the hard-line issues of technology and craft, it's the hypnotic, aesthetic and even spiritual qualities of the material that ultimately turn watershaping into art. Watershapers aren't alone in pursuing those qualities, as great artists and creative minds have always used nature as a primary source of inspiration. One might even say that the endless variety, subtlety and surprises found in natural materials and settings couldn't be conjured by the human mind without nature's being there as a guide.