I made this image from a photo taken while snowshoeing of long straws after a snowfall. I like that the blue reflects cold and winter, as does the starkness of the image. The diagonals imply movement, dynamism. The grasses split at the top, looking like those little lines we draw behind things to show movement. The lines in this piece are jagged, pixellated, reminding us that we are not seeing nature. Unnatural nature.
Jumbled lines dash toward the picture edges but are also static, cradling tiny bundles of newfallen snow. The muted colour palette reinforces that sense of stillness, silence, the hush of newfallen snow.
This image is very two dimensional—it doesn’t have a lot of depth. So it’s flat and silent but also dynamic and off-balance, weighted far more on the left than the right but yet feeling balanced. Because those lines draw the eye right, the image never tips backwards to the left. Asymmetrical but balanced, dynamic yet static, cold yet nurturing.
