The Slow Light, a project of Anima Press, brings together nature-based fine art prints and reflective text, created with widows in mind. Grief is often framed solely through absence—through what is gone. This work offers a reorientation: an attentiveness to what remains, however subtle, and a quiet counter to the isolation that so often accompanies widowhood.

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Rather than documenting the natural world, this landscape—where Geordie’s ashes are scattered—is felt not as backdrop, but as part of him, and of us. Each image lingers in relationship, gently inviting a slower rhythm of seeing. Through the camera’s capacity to gather light, layer time, and shape attention, presence is traced as it flickers at the edge of perception.

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At times, I find myself reaching toward a future reunion with Geordie, imagining how I might one day see, with clarity, all the ways he has remained with me. These images form a kind of living archive of moments in which I have felt Geordie.

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In a culture that often perceives widows as diminished, this work does not turn away from grief, but holds it within something more spacious—where attention, sensitivity, and attunement to both loss and continuing bonds are recognized as forms of strength, and where widowhood is understood as dynamic, relational, and continually becoming.

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Each image is hand-printed on 8.5 × 11-inch or 13 × 19-inch deckle-edge, archival smooth rag paper (308 gsm), with a surrounding border that allows the image space to breathe.

 

The materials and process are chosen with care, echoing the quiet, tactile nature of the work itself.

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The pieces shown here are samples. The collection is ongoing and evolving, with images and texts shifting over time.

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Each 8.5 × 11-inch print is priced at $80, and 13 × 19-inch at $140.

 

Available for purchase at Morrice Florist or directly through me.