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January 07, 2010
Snow, in winter
Snow - you just can't beat it!
No, really. It muffles the world with noise-proof blanket, makes it look clean and picturesque, and apparently even makes people nicer to each other. A natural equivalent of terrorist atack then, at least in the last respect.
We love it because it's pretty and it's temporal. It never lasts long enough for us to hate it.
Or maybe it's because normal rules don't apply any more; we can call work and blag about the trains not running.. and 'work from home'..
One of my most cherished childhood memories is a scene in which my brother and I play in the snow long after our usual bedtime. It's a special night, with sky lit by a huge silver disk of the full moon and million stars, all still and silent. The sheet of diamond-like snow crystals glitter in the moonlight and reflect back even more light onto trees wrapped in heavy snow-coats. I'm enthralled and happy in my own private fairytale land.
Later in life I made many visits to snowy and icy landscapes at both ends of the world, and turned this obsession into something important and personally meaningful. Projects that can only be described and explained as 'labour of love' followed. But that's beyond the point. The first germ of it all might have been planted on that one starry night some forty years ago.
And I think that's really cool.
Posted by Marzena at January 7, 2010 06:56 PM