Bruce Boyd

0˚C is collaboration between photographer, Bruce Boyd and artist Tharien Smith

In 0˚C we use Ice as a medium to display the beauty of flowers. I find it fascinating that ice can preserve something and at the same time also enhance or distort the beauty of it. For a few fleeting moments we are treated to this preserved beauty, the past encapsulated perfectly, before the ice melts and flowers wilt.

“ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.” Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman