Nothing makes a familiar road look new like the moon.
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500gsm · 100% cotton · Hahnemühle Photo Rag · Archival pigment inks · 6 × 18 cm · Matte finish.
Night Watch series · 11 of 20 different sets.
Catalogue Nº 055 of 100.
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The walk you take three nights a week, suddenly silver. The kitchen window facing the back garden, where you have seen everything fifteen thousand times, gone alien for an hour. The drive you make to your sister's place, lit on the right-hand side as if put there for the first time. None of it has changed. The lighting did. That was enough.
A row of cypresses on a hill in central Italy, in silhouette against a full moon large enough to look misprinted. Down in the valley, a small city is doing its evening, lights on, indifferent. The cypresses have stood here for two generations. The moon comes up in this exact place three or four times a year. The driver pulling over to look is some version of you on a quiet evening.
Sits alongside The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, or any book read by the kitchen window when the rest of the house is asleep.
The world looks different once the day is done. Distance changes. Shapes turn into silhouettes and then back into shapes again as the moon moves into a clearing. The light that remains comes from headlights, lamp posts, fire, and the moon, and each of these has its own opinion about the landscape. Stay out long enough and the night stops being something that ended your day and starts being a place of its own.
