A brief enchantment overtakes the forest, as if winter itself has inscribed a sacred language across every branch. In a single breath between darkness and day, the woods become a living manuscript—radiant, ancient, and already vanishing.

Title: Poetry in Rime

Subtitle: Winter’s Frozen Calligraphy

Reference: Hoar frost crystallizing on forest trees at sunrise, illuminated after river fog

Artist’s Statement:
In the hush before morning fully claims the sky, the forest is transfigured—each branch adorned with frost that reads like a language older than memory. Drawn from the hidden river’s breath, the cold gathers its strength and writes in luminous sigils, turning trees into keepers of a fleeting scripture. The light arrives not gently, but with revelation, igniting every crystalline edge into brilliance. For a moment, the woods stand as a cathedral of winter’s making, inscribed with a myth no voice can fully carry.

But this script is not meant to endure. The same sun that reveals its meaning also unravels it, dissolving each line back into air. What remains is not the verse, but the sense that something rare was spoken—and that the forest, for a moment, remembered an older story.

The moments are extraodinary but fleeting. Being present for one of these moments is a rare privilege – shared by North Country people.

Summary:
A rare winter scene where hoar frost transforms the forest into a radiant, sacred text—brilliant, intricate, and destined to be brief.

Themes: mythic landscape, impermanence, transformation, winter light, sacred nature, ephemerality

Placement: living room, study, meditation space, gallery wall

Formats: fine art paper, canvas, metal, acrylic

Limited Edition: 100, with numbered signed certificate