A project focusing on my favourite weather/time - just after the rise of dawn, the earth is bitter, dew is on the grass, silence has decended on the world, and slowly, the world wakes up. The world is heated, and grows, everything slowly awakens, and that is a real beauty in itself.
I'm interested in the fact that at night, nature takes over. It gets a hold on the world, just for that brief time, and freezes everything in its path.
The slow build of sound and of heat is so subtle & beautiful, people don't take time to realise just how beautiful it is. We are surrounded by beauty, by emotion, by feeling, by meaning. Nature is healing, it has a relationship with us, and i think we do tend to neglect it. If you just watched as nature slowly adapts to the morning sun, i think it would be a very theriputic & relaxing experience, but also make people think about what is actually happening around us.
Nature is ever changing. Especially with the seasonal differences. People complain & think that ice and snow is just interuptive. It's amazing that water can change its matter and be able to create lots of different types of weather. Mist is like the sky coming down to say hello. When i go outside just after sunrise, bitterly cold, the sun trying its best to shine its powerful light on the world, i feel the most at ease. I realise the beauty that is the earth, because it is so peaceful. The cold makes you feel even more, its like the weather is touching you. Immersing you in an environment, kissing your face with the bitter wind.
“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
“It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
"The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the day. First, there are the scents, which seem even more generous with their offerings than they are in the evening."- Rosemary Verey
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep."
- Rumi
"With the first gleam of morning rays, the garden is a prism of a thousand hues refracted in tiny does of crystal dew, a dazzling quilt of millefleur colors covering the sleeping flower beds."- Duane Michals, The Vanishing Act
“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32)
“December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...”
― John Geddes
http://www.alternet.org/environment/studies-show-amazing-ways-nature-boon-your-health
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis_medicatrix_naturae
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4764051BE5927C92
