Darkness Behind
I’m trying to find a name for my new series of photographs.
Because that title ‘Darkness Behind’ is a place holder and I don’t like that title so I need to change it. But maybe it will just live on forever.
I want to call it:
Wandering-around-the-forests-and-hedgerows-with-my-macro-lens-and-flash-photographing-life-in-its-strange-detail-knowing-it's-all-going-to-die.
And I want to write up a meaningful artistic blurb, which has to do with the beauty of nature but the inherent darkness and horror behind it. The swallow eating the fly, the bee living for only one month, the spider liquefying its prey, seeds blowing on the wind to maybe find root or maybe die on concrete or eaten by birds. Grass finding a spot to grow only to be cut in half as the mower or sheep come along. The rabbit nibbling the grass constantly in fear of the fox.
And humans, don’t get me started on humans.
But it looks so peaceful.
It looks so wonderful.
There is so much wonder and variety in twenty meters of hedgerow that we never notice.
So much beauty and wonder and death.
‘Darkness Behind’ does not cover it.
But it will have to do for now.
