Open edition print
Christmas Tree, Room to Breathe
The Christmas Tree of Biei standing alone above wind-shaped snow, made on my first visit in March 2018. A calm black and white print with room to breathe above a sofa or bed. Free replacement if it arrives flawed, and a 30-day return if it does not feel right on your wall. An evergreen in snow, the kind of image the feng shui tradition hangs on an east wall; details below.
About the photograph
This is the widest view I made of the Christmas Tree that March morning in 2018. The wind had cut a low ledge into the fresh snow, and it runs from the bottom of the frame toward the tree like a path. Over the hill the grey sky was streaked with lighter bands. It is a single instant, not a long exposure, so every edge of the snow stays crisp.
What it does for the room
This is a wide, landscape frame, so it sits well above a sofa, a bed or a long sideboard. For the space over a sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 or 20×30 fills the wall without crowding it. For a hallway, a desk or a narrow wall, 12×18 or 16×24 is enough. The square crop, from 12×12 to 40×40, suits a single wall in a bedroom or a pair beside a window, and the 4:5 crop, from 8×10 to 40×50, fits a shelf or a standard frame. The picture is mostly soft white and grey with one dark tree, so it reads as quiet rather than cold, and those greys sit easily with light oak, linen, stone and plaster.
Real photograph
One exposure, made on location. No composites, no generated content. Tone and light are refined in editing, as with any fine-art print.
Where it fits
Living rooms, bedrooms, hallways and home offices in a Japandi, Scandinavian or quiet minimalist style. As a gift, it suits someone who has stood at this tree in winter, or someone who simply wants a calm wall, and the story of the photograph above is there to tell when it is opened.
Feng Shui Application Info
In Chinese painting, an evergreen in snow is an emblem of steadiness through a hard season. Here the lone spruce of Biei, Hokkaido, stands behind a drift ledge.
Placement in the tradition: a living room or study, on an east or south-east wall, the two directions of the wood element.
Kua number: in the Eight Mansions school the east and south-east walls belong to the East group, Kua 1, 3, 4 and 9. This pairing is read from the published direction tables; no text was written for this picture.
It is a real photograph for your wall, with no promise of luck or fortune.
- Photographed
- 7 March 2018
- Place
- Biei, Hokkaido, Japan
- Exposure
- 1/80 s f/16 ISO 100
- Made
- A single exposure, as seen.
- Paper
- Archival pigment print on acid-free matte paper
Ref# 2018-0307-10 · andreluu.com/p/2018-0307-10
On the wall, true to scale
Frames and mats shown for illustration only and are not included. Your print ships unframed.
