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Three Autumns and Two Winters

by ERIN WOODBREY


Three Autumns and Two Winters presents a poetic recounting of the ephemeral process of creating anthotypes with locally gathered leaves and flowers. All the images were taken between October 2020 and November 2022– documenting three autumns, two winters, two springs, and two summers. These images and texts offer broader ruminations on time and the ecologies of light. How does time move faster or slower as seasonal light waxes and wanes? Cycles of the earth, geologic-time, tree-time, plant-time, bee-time, human-time– What are the material experiences of circular motion?





  1. Cardoon flower, 2022
  2. Anthotype process image - collecting materials from the garden, 2022
  3. Anthotype process image - creating emulsion, 2022
  4. Praying manitus found in dye garden, 2022
  5. Anthotype emulsion, 2022
  6. Color samples, 2022
  7. K., Le Guin Ursula, and Donna Jeanne Haraway. Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, IGNOTA Books, London, 2020, pp. 28–29.
  8. The Middle of October (Bottles and Marigolds), 2022, Shaowgram Anthotype, red marigold on paper, 18 x 24 inches
  9. Process image - Anthotype made from red marigolds with single use containers, 2022
  10. Twenty Seven Days and Twenty Two Clear Glass Containers, 2022, Shadowgram anthotype,  purple perilla on paper, 10 1/4 x 28 1/2 inches
  11. brown, adrienne maree. “Adrienne Maree Brown - ‘We Are in a Time of New Suns.’” The On Being Project, 23 June 2022, https://onbeing.org/programs/adrienne-maree-brown-we-are-in-a-time-of-new-suns/.
  12. Bee hive inspection, 2022
  13. Dye garden, 2022
  14. Plains coreopsis, 2022
  15. Steiner, Rudolf. “Lecture One - Dornach, November 26, 1923.” Bees, Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, NY, 1998, pp. 8–9.
  16. Seed starting, 2022
  17. Kelly, Donika, and Nikky Finney. “Winter Poem.” Bestiary: Poems, Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2016, pp. 57.
  18. Making lake pigments process photo, 2022
  19. Pine tree and snow shadow, 2022
  20. A Group of Transparent Objects process photo, 2021
  21. October to November process photo, 2021
  22. Five Containers and Three Lids (In Two Parts) process photo, 2021
  23. Duras, Marguerite, et al. “The Star.” Practicalities: Marguerite Duras Speaks to jérôme Beaujour, Grove Press, New York, NY, 2000, pp. 64–64.
  24. A Group of Transparent Objects, 2021, Shadowgram Anthotype, spinach on paper, 24 x 18 inches
  25. Five Containers and Three Lids (In Two Parts), 2021, Shadowgram Anthotype, cabbage and beetroot on paper, 24 x 36 inches
  26. Eleven Opaque Containers (Two Parts), 2021 - Shadowgram Anthotype, spinach on paper, 24 x 36 inches
  27. Sunflower leaves being processed for emulsion, 2021
  28. Sunflower leaf emulsion coated on paper, 2021
  29. Anthotype emulsion samples, 2021
  30. Vegetable garden, 2021
  31. Andrea, Munita Marambio Camila, and Vicuña Cecilia. Slow down Fast, a Toda Raja, Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, 2019, pp. 34–35.
  32. Petrified wood, Carrizozo, NM, 2022
  33. Found glass, 2021
  34. Process image - Anthotype made from cabbage and beets with found objects, 2021
  35. The Sun in Carrizozo, process photo, 2021
  36. The Sun in Carrizozo, 2021, Shadowgram Anthotype, spinach on paper, 16 x 14 inches
  37. Fragments of Clear and Green Glass Organized by Color and Opacity from the Center to the Edge, 2021, Shadowgram Anthotype, spinach on paper, 16 x 14 inches
  38. Heti, Sheila. Pure Colour, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2022, pp. 21.
  39. The Second Week of October, 2020, Shadowgram Anthotype, spinach on paper, 24 x 18 inches
  40. The Second Week of October, process photo, 2020
  41. Two Weeks in October (Sixteen Containers Used to Hold Liquids), 2020, Shadowgram Anthotype, spinach on paper, 24 x 36 inches
  42. Autum in Tivoli, NY, 2020
  43. Four Weeks (Eighteen See Through Containers Made Out of Plastic and Glass), process photo, 2020
  44. Four Weeks (Eighteen See Through Containers Made Out of Plastic and Glass), 2020, Shadowgram Anthotype, cabbage and beetroot on paper, 24 x 18 inches
  45. Three Weeks in October into November (A Row of Bottles), 2020, Shadowgram Anthotype, beetroot on paper, 12 x 32 in
  46. Artichoke plant, 2020