Charles.A.D - Dry Flower (2021)

What does it mean to be alone? In our society people are connected, and yet at the same time are not. We are close to nature, and yet we can no longer feel it. The smell of the soil after rain. The sound of running water. The amorphous shapes of the clouds. Why do we forget these things so quickly?

The flow of time has changed. The flow of time in nature is slow. We cannot understand nature with a single instance's thought. But the flow of time in our society is speeding up. With too much information, and too little time to concentrate, with nature's time we can no longer keep up.

At the same time, with the speed of time in our society, we can no longer understand nature. Always rushing, we only get a fleeting glimpse. But humans are creatures born from nature. If we lose the ability to understand nature, we'll also lose the ability to understand ourselves. And then, even if our souls have been damaged, perhaps we won't even realise.

We are in need of spiritual healing. But for this, we are also in need of time. Nature's time. The time of the moving clouds. The time of forests growing. The time of mountains forming. Perhaps if one stops oneself and focuses on the breath, focuses on the colour of the blue sky, focuses on the sound of the waves, the flow of time may change a little. And then spiritual healing will begin.