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My new Zoom series begins this week and I am excited to. share my tools with a new group of actors and directors in Australia, New Zealand and LA. Check out the details here if you are interested in enrolling next time.
https://www.thehubstudio.com.au/miranda-harcourt-specialist-screen-masterclass/
THE FOREST
Each line is like a forest. And there are limpid pools and places of wonderment all throughout the forest, not just at the beginning and the end.
In this beautiful 1595 ink on paper image, we see a pine forest through the mist. Famously, the artist Hasegawa Tohaku painted nothing but pine trees on these two screens — the first time in Japanese art history that such simplicity had been explored. It is plain-speaking. There is no running stream, no falling leaf, no rustling grass, no drifting bird.
See the two pan…