{"id":2395,"date":"2022-11-23T20:15:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2022-11-24T08:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T08:02:54","slug":"roofs-of-red-warmth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/23\/roofs-of-red-warmth\/","title":{"rendered":"Roofs of Red Warmth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roofs of Red Warmth at St Peter and St Paul Church Caistor \u00a9<\/em> Stewart Wall, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

many roofs of red
the love once shared eternal
forgetting the warmth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have been spending too long indoors recently and today as I prepared to wash the dishes the rain stopped and the grey skies turned blue. I grabbed the Fuji X100V and headed out. I wandered around Caistor, stopping to talk to people I know and ended up in the churchyard and started to make images. I was about to head home when I glanced over and saw this tree, standing alone in a landscape where branches are piercing the air once more without cover. I walked back to have a closer look. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the real landscape the leaves on the tree are a deeper red and the grass greener after days of rain, but in post production engaged with my inner landscape and created the image as a visual representation of how I felt about the tree and its red leaves. The leaves on the tree appeared gentle, and fragile as they clung on to life, a lighter red seemed more appropriate than the fiery red they were. Whatever their tonality I saw them as a roof looking over and after the many memorials to past lives that laid out below them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I walked I thought of some text written by John Muir, that I had read on social media earlier in the day. I listened and heard the breeze flickering through the trees. Muir wrote about his farm as somewhere to shelter from storms, but being in nature being his real home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Little, however, is to be learned in confused, hurried tourist trips, spending only a poor noisy hour in a branded grove with a guide. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You should go looking and listening alone on long walks through the wild forests and groves in all the seasons of the year.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014John Muir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read the above on social media. I stopped to read it again and something about it really resonated with me. I am not sure what it is yet, but there is something in the words that will change how I work. I want to find out more about Muir.<\/p>\n\n\n

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