Ideas on the theme (brainstorming)
Farewell summer; packing away summer, memories, flowers, sea, sand and the dry starfish, used up, dried, faded away, faded memories, crumbled, bristle, breaking, wine, wine boxes, wood, texture, light fading or strong light combined with dark shadows, natural way, season, change of seasons, coming and going, cycle of life and death, Dandelion wine, cold season approaching, cold and dark, the beginning and the end, maturing, time passing away, childhood ends, birth and death, joy and sadness, Moumin troll, midseason, midwinter, passing away, summer’s gone, summer passed away, wine box – coffin?, boxed up, free spirit of summer boxed up, rigid, dead, orderly, fading light, plain light, bottled up summer, end of light, beginning of dark, change, accepting change or resisting change, dream, accepting death.
Interpretation
George Eliot said that “All meanings depend on the key of interpretation”. Through these images I wanted to express my experiences of the change of the season. I wanted to bring the summer feelings of quiet joy, warmth and lightness closer to the approaching autumn& winter’s long and cold nights.
Summer is a celebration of life and these images are about the desire to continue the gay season and prolong the joyful and carefree times.
It is about not letting go, not yet being ready to go into autumn – packing away the memories that are quickly fading away - what used to be sunlit and beautiful and is now becoming just a trace, a flash or a flicker of that summer light. It is also about life and death, the beginning and the end, and about the time passing away as fast the last summer. It is about acceptance and letting go.
