Autumn Distance Framed Original Contemporary Digital Fine Art

Jul 17

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Welcome to my July collection of Original Contemporary Digital Fine Art! Moving house has a peculiar way of making you consider what it means to carry a life from one place to another. As I packed mine into boxes ready to move this July, I found myself thinking about all the things we accumulate that could never be packed away. The words we have read, the songs we have loved, the films we return to, the places we have called home, the people we have known and the memories scattered amongst them. Small fragments collected across a lifetime that somehow become part of who we are.

The feathers throughout this collection grew from that idea, I began to imagine life as a kind of migration. As we travel through it, we leave feathers behind in the places we have been, while gathering others from everything that touches us along the way. Some remain with us for years, some drift away almost unnoticed, others become so deeply woven into us that we carry them for the rest of our lives. Like a bird in flight, we carry what belongs to us, shed what no longer needs to follow, and continue towards whatever horizon comes next.

Autumn Distance

Sometimes we encounter a phrase that changes the way we see something forever, a few words in a book can become attached to a colour, a landscape, a season or even just a feeling so completely that we carry them with us long after we have forgotten everything else that surrounded them.

Inspired by Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes, Autumn Distance is about those fragments of literature that escape their pages and become part of our own inner world. Words borrowed from another imagination begin to mingle with our memories, giving names to things we may have felt but never quite known how to describe, this is absolutely one of the quiet gifts of reading, we collect pieces of other worlds as we travel through them and without realising it, they become part of the way we see our own world.