{"id":1332,"date":"2025-01-11T20:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2025-01-11T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T20:47:12","slug":"the-silence-of-snow-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/the-silence-of-snow-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of Snow (sketches).\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>November 2024: As the cold nights drew in and the first sprinkling of snow lay on the ground, I returned to an idea I first had whilst making the recent work for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/_u\/agakhancentregallery?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0mch_ZFNWBfUCBkK5UUvhPSSm1JMYJ67NU0YeT9oCC0CYT8seVen2YWBo_aem_EaGALEEW6Y_-PZQFvWYgcw\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/_u\/agakhancentregallery?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0mch_ZFNWBfUCBkK5UUvhPSSm1JMYJ67NU0YeT9oCC0CYT8seVen2YWBo_aem_EaGALEEW6Y_-PZQFvWYgcw\">@agakhancentregallery<\/a><\/strong> as part of the \u2018Constellations &#8211; Seeds to Stars\u2019 series\u2026 and I was reminded of this beautiful Matsuo Basho Haiku.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow2-88x88.jpg 88w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow2-973x973.jpg 973w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow2-508x508.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks as always to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tom.jordan.399826?__cft__%255B0%255D=AZV8aI7GytDe-o1W2Bpre6ViC4LhpV7v4nurcZaHzJ4g-IcBLeU0G0nUc5-3HNy_WmceFHdIneeyCeImPGaOiAlW6QFqbcD-_8P0gbekjeGqXG7kQi8YSVNBXvlpGz04xCaI_vy7JfdfJqlkt8AVb2NRENhUzqSf9OGEwhktR_E4A1JDDdV1jAvjt0e5JAIVVFE&amp;__tn__=-%255DK-y-R\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a>Tom Jordan for helping me develop this. Ultimately, I intend to make the finished piece out of grey granite and white marble.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>\u96ea\u3068\u96ea\u3000\u4eca\u5bb5\u5e2b\u8d70\u306e\u3000\u540d\u6708\u304b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yki to yuki\/ Koyoi shiwasu no\/ Meigetsu ya<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The snow and snow.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This evenining would have<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The great moon of December.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Basho<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container rl-loading\" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"1325\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicgrid-gallery \" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow6.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow6-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow5.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow5-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow4.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow4-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow3.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow3-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2024: As the cold nights drew in and the first sprinkling of snow lay on the ground, I returned to an idea I first had whilst making&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/snow.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}