Rapeseed horizon
- 📍 Location: Berck-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
- 📅 Date: 2022
Two colours and one object. The rapeseed fills the lower half of the frame in an unbroken yellow, the sky above is a clean untroubled blue, and a single small tree stands on the line where they meet.
I put the horizon exactly across the middle, which is normally a mistake and here is the entire proposition. The picture is a statement about division — two equal fields of flat colour, and one thing standing on the join to prove the join is real.
I waited for a day with no cloud at all. Any texture in that sky would have unbalanced it immediately; the upper half has to be as empty as the lower half is full, or the symmetry collapses and you are left with an ordinary field.
Minimalism in landscape is mostly subtraction, and subtraction means walking a long way to find the one position where nothing unwanted is in the frame. I covered a lot of that field before finding the line where this tree stood alone.
Limited-edition fine-art print from the Skywaven Studios collection, available in several sizes, papers and framing options.
