Growth, Rhythm and the Sun
l’Huis Préau, France, summer 2023
Summer 2023 unfolded in the immersive landscapes of L’Huis Préau, where cutting gardens, ornamental plots, allotment beds, rolling meadows, and ancient forests created a living environment of abundance, rhythm, and layered growth. At the height of the sun, during Litha and the long luminous days of midsummer, life moved with intensity, revealing growth in overlapping cycles and interconnected forms. Short nights and early mornings invited presence and attentiveness, offering space to savor, to observe, and to attune to these subtle rhythms.
It was a period of immersion and surrender, of letting go and allowing what had been planted to reveal itself. Potential and possibility emerged in every corner, with the gardens, meadows, and woods providing a constant dialogue between cultivated intention and wild autonomy. The layering of growth — from shoots in the soil to towering trees — reflected the interwoven rhythms of emergence, maturation, and renewal, echoing the way experiences, impressions, and sensations accumulate over time.
Across these long, bright days, the interplay of abundance and transience, activity and pause, presence and surrender revealed the depth and richness of midsummer. The season offered a reflection on how layered life, growth, and observation converge, and how the cycles of the natural world carry within them both vitality and quiet transformation.
