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"In Japanese we have a word for those feelings that are too deep for words: yugen. Yugen gives us a profound sense of the beauty and mystery of the universe." On Shinrin Yoku, Dr Qing Li

Roses in the voltage grows out of the experience of shinrin-yoku (forest bathing). The idea of quiet solitude in nature; of communing with the outside. There is an over-arching theme of climatic concern; that we are destroying our environments and losing touch with a way of life we were once intertwined with.

"Indoors, we tend to use only two senses, our eyes and our ears. Outside is where we can smell the flowers, taste the fresh air, look at the changing colours of the trees, hear the birds singing and feel the breeze on our skin. And when we open up our senses, we begin to connect to the natural world." On Shinrin Yoku, Dr Qing Li

There is an awe of the forces that surround us, sitting within that space and ultimately knowing ourselves.

"There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape. And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand. And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words. In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence." The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

From our vantage point; A Hillside Emanation starts within. Surrounded by hieroglyphs written in chalk scratches. The landscape, exterior and interior. We are contemplating the flow; the stream of water, energy, air, particles, electricity.

"Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force." Lao Tzu.

Learn from nature, take inspiration from nature and preserve nature. Make art from nature. Revel in the mysteries. Lose yourself, slow down time.

"I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time." Joseph Beuys.

As the lightning bursts and cools, the rose grows. Tempered; snow falls in balletic bursts.

{ Pollens expired a shimmering veil impose oft in the chilly hours as expelled breath }