The traditional Japanese celebrations and viewing parties of cherry blossom, hanami, have been embraced and adopted elsewhere, particularly in recent years. A moment to pause and appreciate the fragile cycle of life, and its beauty. The blossoms herald the arrival of spring and renewal. Upon reaching their peak bloom, they swiftly fall. They also expose shifts in climate, blooming according to seasonal variations and distortions, becoming a seductive and elegant register of the climate crisis.

Created in the photographic darkroom, they embrace and combine two techniques of uncertainty and fragility, the photogram and solarisation. Each silver gelatin print is unique. The original 6X7 negative image of cherry blossom was made in a Japanese blossom park near Amsterdam, and is overlaid with different blooms during the brief moment of solarisation. This experimental capture poetically refers to distorted rhythms and notions of time, whilst also referencing Japanese symbolism and cosmology.