Iridescent viridescence

On the comfort of glowing green from emerging chlorophyll

As I look out of the studio window at emerging leaves of sweet cicely, sun shines through, lighting the underside of its young leaves, their tender expanding surfaces filling with new chlorophyll. It triggers a feeling, close to comfort and happiness, I guess an inbuilt response to our species’ relief for the arrival of abundant food. Layered with my own excitement to witness the results of my planting and nurturing, dividing and moving. Days of warmth and sun, insects and colour.

This week I thought I’d share my feelings for the arrival of green in a photo diary because I find it hard to fully capture it in words. Relish in this short moment of luminosity.

“I’m waiting for it, that green light, I want it.” - Lorde