Conversion Therapy.

Photographs by Simon Thorogood.

After a few weeks of colourless and drab weather, the landscape and one’s own mindset has been adjusted by the fresh snowfall.

Although temporary, the fleecy blanket changes much and difference abounds. Light levels are adjusted; sounds are both muffled and amplified; the blanched ground slips into the ashen sky; tracks and movements of animals and machines are revealed; and a familiarity with surroundings is modified.

One can engage with one’s environment anew, and the task of the arts and humanities is entrusted to the fields and trees around a small village in Baden-Württemberg.