The White Boat Of Winter
The Whie Boat of Winter
The White Boat of Winter - detail 1
The White Boat of Winter - detail 2
Title: The White Boat of Winter
Size 255cms w x 72cms h Date: 20010/11
Recent winters have been exceptional and the visual and physical experiences gained from them were quite overwhelming. Familiar complex landscapes were reduced to monochrome, simplified and transformed by the snow. To me these winters had a magical, dreamlike quality out of normal time, a stark, cruel time but also an incredibly beautiful and otherworldly time, a time when we were cut off from the outside world in our frozen universe of dazzling whiteness. Calligraphic webs of bird and animal tracks, lunar patterns on the ice of the frozen river and silent, starving red deer slipping like ghosts between the trees. Priorities changed to keeping warm and keeping fed, digging paths daily to wood store and freezer shed. Foraging in the woods for dry sticks, sometimes walking the 3 miles into Brora for supplies and feeling that the winter was like a wolf circling close to our fragile little circle of warmth.