I Need You

The hill behind my house was one of the places where I found inspiration. It was covered with rainforest plants, and there was a path leading up. Along the path, there were many stems. These parasitic plants were very interesting. After several observations, I found that they were very possessive. In just a few days, they could coil around a plant several times taller than themselves. After that, they were still desperately climbing upward, as though they had to grow higher than the plant they wrapped around. Their prey was helpless. There was nothing it could do but give in. I grew to admire the amazing vitality of these stems. They were also in line with nature's law: survival of the fittest.

I found that they had different forms. Some were bowed up like evil snakes spitting out their tongues. Some swayed in the wind, and some seemed to be staring at me, wondering if they could reach out to me.

I suddenly had an idea. I leaned down and uprooted a seedling. When I got home, I planted it immediately and placed a delicate bottle next to it. My plan was to see if it would invade the bottle.

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A few days later, I found that it had grown rapidly, almost as tall as the bottle. The intriguing thing was that I thought it would coil around and wrap itself around the bottle. But it was different from what I had imagined. It nestled against the bottle, as tame as a sheep. The once hostile, domineering character was gone. This seedling seemed to have a spiritual nature, but what caused the change in temperament, I do not know.

I moved the computer screen next to the seedling and the bottle, and used a program I wrote to generate the light and hue. The light was just right. The plant and bottle were subtly shrouded in darkness, but still illuminated.

The soft light created a great atmosphere.

“But it was different from what I had imagined.”

Through the lens, I saw a subtle and moving scene. As far as composition was concerned, there were many forms of contrast: the rigid versus the soft, the strong versus the weak, the bright versus the dark.

I learned a great deal while creating this piece, especially about contrast.

The idea of contrast is applied everywhere, including on the page you are reading. The size and colours of the title of this page contrast with the size and colours of the text you are reading.

Contrast is everywhere.