Autumn this year is a rabbit affair
and no eye can distinguish
the shivering season from the shaking beast.
Shifty, all yellow,
autumn-color dweller.
Dead leaves and stubble
on hillside and swamp-stump
everywhere, and even the eye
blinks blindly, not knowing
one quick shiver of fear
from another.
Velimir Khlebnikov
1915
and no eye can distinguish
the shivering season from the shaking beast.
Shifty, all yellow,
autumn-color dweller.
Dead leaves and stubble
on hillside and swamp-stump
everywhere, and even the eye
blinks blindly, not knowing
one quick shiver of fear
from another.
Velimir Khlebnikov
1915
Autumn this year is a rabbit affair is a photographic series that explores themes of change, staleness and physical as well as psychological wear in dialogue with Velimir Khlebnikov’s 1915 poem of the same name. Just like the seasons, the cycle of change forces the rabbit to change color in a predetermined answer to fear, enacting a physical response to an event that has yet to happen. Observing my everyday life, I find myself trying to stop this phenomenon, trying to find comfort in stillness, in a moment of rebellion against the natural flow of life.
Photographies argentiques
2025, en cours