Trees don’t change, do we?
18×14,8 cm booklet, laser print, handbound, 3 copies.
Many individual trees that I knew as a child are still recognizable when I return, so little changed when I have changed so much.
Trees are an invitation to think about time and to travel in it the way they do, by standing still and reaching out and down.
— Rebecca Solnit, Orwell’s Roses
Many friendships we create in the course of our lives are destined to fade after a while, without any grand notice and barely any wound left on the people involved. What does it happen to the ones who last in spite of great distances and different hour times? In spite of divergent interests, and life and career paths? Friendships are a very peculiar kind of relationship, I see them as something delicate that needs care and protection but at the same time, they often are the solid rocks we can count on to navigate through our life. Trees Don’t Change, Do We? is a collection of photographs I took over one year, and an attempt to reflect upon and connect with three distant friendships.
2021
1 Dicembre 2020