Komorebi (木漏れ日, pronounced "koh-mo-reh-bee") is a Japanese word that describes the way sunlight filters through trees, creating dappled light plays and patterns. The onset of spring brings with it an intense shift in colour within the natural landscape. I feel it most strongly when I walk through sunlit woodland, looking upwards into the canopy. The abstract forms and colours in my eyes are hard to explain, but I find that making photographs with an unfocussed lens helps me to interpret the intensity of colour and pattern that I see. There is a 'sweet spot' in the focal plane where the formality of the figurative becomes overwhelmed by the sheer radiance of the colour and texture within it; the kind of thing that would excite the Fauvists, or latter-day Hockney.
