Natural Spaces and Emotive Places
I just spent the weekend out in the country. The first time of the year it was actually warm enough to camp.
It was the "super moon" on Saturday, the largest full moon of the year. The moon approached within 357,000 km (222,000 mi) of Earth, in what is scientifically known as a perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system (perigee: closest point of an elliptical orbit; syzygy: straight line made of three bodies in a gravitational system). So, we camped and danced and got a little crazy, which was LOVELY.
Photo of the weekend by Jamie Janx Johnston http://twitter.com/#!/jamiejanx
Being outdoors makes me feel so many things. This time of the year it is easy to remember life and the rebirth. But being out of the city really makes me feel so much smaller, a part of something bigger, a part of death and life and the cycle of the world. It was sad for me to come back into the city.
As I was trying to visually articulate these feelings to myself this afternoon, I came across some photos I have by Tom Chambers, and also by Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer. Both of these series convey some feelings I have about being intwined in nature, but also distant from it at the same time.
And also, for my lazy and slightly sad afternoon, a little bit of Asa.