Horizontal Haiga by Alan Bern
Horizontal Haiga
Horizontal Haiga
Photographs by Tracy Wai de Boer
What does unravel mean to you?
The first meaning that I associate with 'unraveling' is the idea of letting go.
I realized that this photo series reminds us not of where to escape to but the where and the how to return to.
The images display a disintegration of form communicating a passage of time and resemble painful bodily experiences.
Photographs
The extreme cold and the snow on the highway nearly killed us, but we were lucky to see beautiful things that many people have never seen.
I love the ambiguity of unravel - it can represent destruction, just as it can represent cleansing. It can speak to the unrelenting forces beyond our control, or the simple, deliberate act of undoing.
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