“The Japanese women, a beautiful and problematic thing... weightless under lowering skies, so flat… she might be gift wrap” “watered a border of scarlet phlox, a soft spray arching from the nozzle”/ "watering the garden when the sky shows rain” (Delileo 38-39)
The image of the white-haired Japanese women watering the garden despite an overcast sky can be said to epitomize our increasing disassociation with the forces of Nature as our lives become increasingly interiorized.
Technology mediates so many of our daily practices that we even have to tune in to the weather forecast to find out what the weather is. The self becomes, thus, a mire, wherein we are increasingly isolated from that which is physically outside us. We become so saturated with technology we become isolated from that which is around us- including our natural environment.
