The goal of a Japanese Garden is to suggest an idealized Nature, creating tranquility and harmony in a confined space. Japanese gardens have the power to bring serenity and nature into our crowded lives. Water, rock, plants-all work together to create an oasis from the mechanized and regimented world. In a Japanese garden, one can see mountains, oceans, and forests, all within a small, carefully contrived area where the small represents the large, and the specific stands in for the universal. I love to find the Wild in Japanese gardens, where beauty and harmony are compressed into archetypal forms.