In visual dialogue with Katherine May's Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, this series explores winter as a season of revelation. As snow settles across the landscape, familiar trees are stripped to their essential forms, revealing an intricate architecture that lies concealed beneath the fullness of the seasons.
"When you start tuning in to winter, you realise that we live through a thousand winters in our lives — some big, some small… Some winters creep up on us so slowly that they have infiltrated every part of our lives before we truly feel them… We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again."
Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
The photographs are available as limited edition archival pigment prints on Awagami Premio Unryu, a handmade Japanese washi paper with visible mulberry fibres.
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