Dream of Giverny Roses
Archival Pigment Print - Giclée on Raw Silk
Copyright © 2004, 2006, 2010, 2013 - Rose Rita Petersons - All Rights Reserved
My "pilgrimage" to Giverny was fast approaching. Since the first time I saw Claude Monet's paintings decades ago, I'd longed to see the gardens he planned that had inspired him for years. The night before arriving, I thought about the place with such anticipation and longing that it caught me off guard. Found myself wondering how it might have actually looked back in the day, at the height of its glory. Drifting off to sleep, I then began to dream of him. What a formidable figure. Standing tall in a long coat, hands clasped behind his back. Meandering slowly through paths heady with fragrance and bursting with a cacophany of colors. Eyes squinting, he was seemingly searching throughout the perfection of his gardens for just the right scene to depict upon his canvas.
Quietly, I followed behind him. Secretly, I was so filled with joy that it made me want to start skipping like a child at play. The luscious fragrance of fully blossomed antique roses enveloped me. Impressions of their colors mesmerized me as they dappled and danced throughout my dreams all night.
The following morning, I went through the gates and approached the pathways with a soupçon of trepidation in my steps. Then, my heart skipped a beat. The garden was everything I'd dreamed and breathed the night before.
My eyes began searching for the site of Monsieur Monet moving about the paths...
Copyright © 2004, 2006, 2010, 2013 Rose Rita Petersons - All Rights Reserved - Exclusive Creative Property of the Artist
This photo and all other content may not be downloaded, printed, copied, or forwarded by electronic media from this website or otherwise used without the express permission of the Artist.
Contact: [email protected]
Photo Location: Monet's Garden at Giverny - Haute-Normandie, France
http://giverny.org/gardens/fcm/visitgb.htm
Copyright © 2004, 2006, 2010, 2013 - Rose Rita Petersons - All Rights Reserved
My "pilgrimage" to Giverny was fast approaching. Since the first time I saw Claude Monet's paintings decades ago, I'd longed to see the gardens he planned that had inspired him for years. The night before arriving, I thought about the place with such anticipation and longing that it caught me off guard. Found myself wondering how it might have actually looked back in the day, at the height of its glory. Drifting off to sleep, I then began to dream of him. What a formidable figure. Standing tall in a long coat, hands clasped behind his back. Meandering slowly through paths heady with fragrance and bursting with a cacophany of colors. Eyes squinting, he was seemingly searching throughout the perfection of his gardens for just the right scene to depict upon his canvas.
Quietly, I followed behind him. Secretly, I was so filled with joy that it made me want to start skipping like a child at play. The luscious fragrance of fully blossomed antique roses enveloped me. Impressions of their colors mesmerized me as they dappled and danced throughout my dreams all night.
The following morning, I went through the gates and approached the pathways with a soupçon of trepidation in my steps. Then, my heart skipped a beat. The garden was everything I'd dreamed and breathed the night before.
My eyes began searching for the site of Monsieur Monet moving about the paths...
Copyright © 2004, 2006, 2010, 2013 Rose Rita Petersons - All Rights Reserved - Exclusive Creative Property of the Artist
This photo and all other content may not be downloaded, printed, copied, or forwarded by electronic media from this website or otherwise used without the express permission of the Artist.
Contact: [email protected]
Photo Location: Monet's Garden at Giverny - Haute-Normandie, France
http://giverny.org/gardens/fcm/visitgb.htm