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Natural Mark
For a long time, I’ve been thinking about how emotion and nature can connect with each other, and how that connection might be shown through images. I lived in modern cities for many years, and although I’ve always loved nature, it was usually something I could only see in small fragments—like a quiet moment on the way to school, the shape of a tree at dusk, or the way winter wind changed the color of the sky. These little details stayed with me, even when I wasn’t consciously looking for them.
When I came to a school surrounded by open fields and a calmer environment, I finally had the space to slow down and really look at the landscape around me. I realized that nature leaves its own kinds of “marks”—not dramatic ones, but the kind that appear slowly: a line of branches against a pale sky, grass bending after rain, shadows that move almost too quietly to notice. Somehow these small scenes carried emotions that felt familiar to me, even though nothing was being “expressed” in a human way.
That’s when I started taking photographs. I wasn’t trying to document nature in a technical sense. I was trying to capture the feeling I got from it—the calmness, the loneliness, the softness, or sometimes the heaviness. Each picture became a way for me to record a moment when the outside world matched something inside me.
Working on this project helped me reconnect with a kind of attention I had lost while living in busy cities. Nature doesn’t try to impress anyone; it just exists and changes quietly. By photographing these small marks, I felt like I was also preserving a part of my own emotional memory. This project is simply a record of those moments—honest, ordinary, but meaningful to me.
When I came to a school surrounded by open fields and a calmer environment, I finally had the space to slow down and really look at the landscape around me. I realized that nature leaves its own kinds of “marks”—not dramatic ones, but the kind that appear slowly: a line of branches against a pale sky, grass bending after rain, shadows that move almost too quietly to notice. Somehow these small scenes carried emotions that felt familiar to me, even though nothing was being “expressed” in a human way.
That’s when I started taking photographs. I wasn’t trying to document nature in a technical sense. I was trying to capture the feeling I got from it—the calmness, the loneliness, the softness, or sometimes the heaviness. Each picture became a way for me to record a moment when the outside world matched something inside me.
Working on this project helped me reconnect with a kind of attention I had lost while living in busy cities. Nature doesn’t try to impress anyone; it just exists and changes quietly. By photographing these small marks, I felt like I was also preserving a part of my own emotional memory. This project is simply a record of those moments—honest, ordinary, but meaningful to me.
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