'Ashes and Snow' | Gregory Colbert's Cathedral To Life

‘Ashes and Snow’ | Gregory Colbert’s Cathedral To Life AOC Green Beings

I wept then, and I weep now in my cyberspace return to photographer Colbert’s Ashes and Snow exhibit, the most profound museum experience of my life.

Seeing the Mona Lisa in all her glory at the Louvre was nothing compared to entering the Ashes and Snow exhibit, now making its way around the world.

Gregory Colbert’s artwork explores the poetic sensibilities of animals and humans together in nature. Humans are seen as a member of the family of animals, and not its opposite. Colbert devotes endless days, sometimes years, introducing humans into animal habitats, coaxing and nurturing intimacy and trust, until an extraordinary moment of sensual intimacy occurs, one captured by his camera lens.