Vadested - Golden Days I-IV
Soft pastels on coloured card
Size: 20 x 20.
Completed 2025
For the wanderer the ford is a decisive threshold on the journey — a place of consequence, shaped by centuries of passage. It is inscribed with memory and use: a point where paths converge, where trade, migration and survival have depended on the body’s careful negotiation with the landscape. In the act of crossing itself, one becomes acutely aware of one’s own weight, of the water’s quiet resistance, and of the slow, vigilant presence the passage demands. The ford is more than a point of transit; it is a site charged with cultural and historical meaning — a pause in which past and present briefly meet, unfolding as a moment of heightened attentiveness: an experience of being temporary, yet fully and consciously present.