One concept I have considered for the Stage 2 project is taking photographs of the Hawthorns during the Spring. This is when the trees will be covered in blossom.
This thought also coincided with this reference to trees in art:
‘Often, in paintings depicting episodes of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, one sees images of a desiccated tree and a tree in bloom, indicating the opposition between redemption and sin. The simultaneous presence of the two trees may also allude to the opposition between Church and Synagogue and more generally between good and evil.’
(Impelluso, L. 2004. pp. 16)
I also noticed a similarity between the above painting and one of my initial Hawthorn images.
References
Impelluso, L. 2004. Nature and Its Symbols. Los Angeles, California: Getty Publications.
Jennie Meadows MA Photography 