Alexander Fleming Photographs The Stillness Of Isolation In Vancouver

All images in the series were captured within a two square kilometer radius surrounding Fleming’s house. In ‘Do Trees Sleep at Night?’, the ordinary holds a different weight once captured: a perfectly trimmed hedge, a bird perched on a balcony, late afternoon shadows cast by the sun. Each considered frame is Each frame reminds us… It’s the small details in life that brings clarity to what matters.captured with grace, enabling the viewer to shift their perspective and remind themselves that it’s the small details in life that can bring clarity to what matters. The undisturbed images are peaceful and do not depict a sombre attitude; but rather the beauty of spaces, dappled light, shadows, and color. “I had this train of thought that whilst everyone was in their homes, one saint was out tending to the gardens, pottering and jostling with the wildlife that is now running wild upon the open avenues,” Fleming says. It reminded him of the children’s book The Night Garden by Polly Horvath, in which the character Old Tom tends to the gardens. “There’s this quote in the book that is particularly fitting to our current day,” he says, an excerpt of which follows as thus:

“Everything is now changed. But that is the whole of what life is. See the sun sinking over the edge of the sea? This day is done. This day will never come again. Everything has changed. Remind yourself of that every morning and every night, and then you won’t come to expect anything but what is.”