Although my current and previous jobs mostly involve photography, I find myself spending very little time thinking about it. Instead, my mind is always filled with classical music, most of the time subconsciously. Photography is the medium through which I express how I see these musical structures.

I began restoring the photos that fill this book back in 2011, and showcased about thirty samples during my first trip to the USA in 2012. People were fascinated by them - they had never seen this style of bonsai before. Following that, I came home and spent the next seven to eight years restoring several thousand more photos.

The structure and flow of this book draws inspiration from Beethoven's 3rd symphony, the work that launched the Romantic movement and is regarded by many to be the greatest symphony ever written. The dual cliffs on the cover represent the two opening chords of the symphony that, according to the great conductor Leonard Bernstein, "shattered the elegant formality of the 18th century".