Cig Harvey British, b. 1973
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40.6 x 50.8 cm / 16 x 20 in
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Edition of 7
76.2 x 101.6 cm / 30 x 40 in
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In this luminous photograph, Scout moves through a snow-blanketed apple orchard near Rockport, Maine, her dark silhouette framed against an expanse of white.
Cig Harvey captures her daughter amid bare branching limbs that create delicate geometry overhead, their skeletal forms softened by falling snow. The atmospheric conditions render the landscape in muted grays and whites, transforming the orchard into something austere yet contemplative.
Harvey's distinctive visual language reveals her preoccupation with memory and family history expressed through landscape.
The apple orchard, traditionally associated with abundance and cultivation, becomes under winter's influence a stripped-down space where seasonal transformation mirrors personal reflection. Scout's solitary figure suggests not portraiture in conventional terms but rather presence within a larger narrative about time and place.
The photograph captures something beyond a single moment. By positioning her daughter within this seasonal landscape, Harvey documents the texture of shared history and quiet intimacy.
The falling snow and soft atmospheric conditions create a dreamlike quality that blurs boundaries between figure and environment, between past and present. Scout becomes both subject and participant, moving through a space that holds equal visual and emotional weight.
This intersection of personal connection and landscape reveals Harvey's artistic gift for finding profound meaning in the everyday rituals of family and nature's cycles.
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