NOTES FROM THE ARTIST, FINISHING HER BOOK:
«Early last fall, I asked my thirteen-year-old if he’d be comfortable wearing his karate gi one late September night, and go outside to enter his silence, performing kata. He agreed.
This past year’s artwork was, in part, initiated by his vivid connection to the natural world around us — and by my own pull into memories of a childhood shaped by intense experiences in nature, as well as the deep imprint of many years of illness, spent so intensely in this very place we live.
Last night, as I was wrestling with the final details of my photobook, the now fourteen-year-old came to me and said:
“Mum, it’s midnight. Do you want to come out on the terrace with me for a little break — just to look at the blue hour?”
At some point during this process, a quiet vision began to take form: to embrace and honour the spirit dwelling in this place we call ours.
Last night he was drawn down to the shoreline in the moonlight».
I grabbed my camera, nearly trembling from the beauty — from the eagerness to capture it.
Then he said:
“Mum, don’t worry about being quick. I just really like being here.”
I’m back where I started.
And the circle continues.
