Transience

Johnny Green (2015)

I Remember

Of these times, what will you remember? Those moments when night kissed day, the girl with the sun in her soul, our first words to one another, a sweet caress? Do you remember the beauty of the sunrise that morning as the wind blew strong across your lands, or the pain when later our sun set Heaven comes, heaven goes.

To photograph is a way of trying to understand the world, inside and outside of us. Moments in time are captured, taken, but we can't hold back the tide. Our senses excite learning and self-expression. They may seduce us. Meanwhile, our experiences and the way that we react to these are our lessons. If we can just stay present, then everything flows. Breathe in, breathe out.

Transience began as a feeling of time passing and life slipping away, with universal themes such as love and death never far away. Memory came and went, as I watched others dealing with the loss of theirs, while my own tires and fades.

Then just hours after finishing the film to this project and warmed by the Spanish air, death came closer still. Months were lost and songs rang out in A&E, having strayed too close to the edge and for a short time at least, I realised what it is to truly live: what we have is here and now, nothing more, nothing less. There is time, but only so much. Transience is true, while forever, in a glimpse was lost.

This is a work of both pleasure and pain, but mostly pleasure. In the end, there are no ifs or buts, there is simply when, because all things must pass.