The work captures that most poignant of thresholds—the road leading outward from the small Fife town of Auchtermuchty, caught in the gentle, uncertain half-light of dusk. With its square format and calibrated stillness, the image draws our gaze along a ribbon of tarmac flanked by small houses and distant trees, the last blush of daylight both illuminating and obscuring the path ahead. This is a landscape on the cusp: neither fully day nor night, neither wholly rooted nor entirely free.
Digital photographic image printed on Fuji DPII Lustre photographic paper
Image Size: 10 * 10 inches
Ready Framed Single Edition £225
The work reminds us about the phenomenon of rural drift—the centuries-old movement of people away from small towns and villages toward the gravitational pull of larger cities. In its quiet, almost cinematic composition, the work encapsulates the bittersweet ambivalence of departure: the road is at once an invitation to adventure and a reminder of what is left behind. The emptying countryside, the quiet fields, the gentle slopes of Fife, all speak to the persistence of rural life even as its young people and old ambitions are drawn towards the dazzling promise of Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Yet, in the soft dusk light, there is no condemnation—only understanding. The image neither laments nor glorifies but invites contemplation of our own journeys. The work stands as a visual meditation on impermanence, longing, and the interplay between place and possibility, crystallising both the solitude and hope that accompany every road taken toward the city’s distant lights.
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