{"product_id":"butterflies-are-quicker-than-rock-feiyi-wen","title":"butterflies are quicker than rock - Feiyi Wen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ebutterflies are quicker than rock\u003c\/em\u003e takes its title from a line in Wintergreen Ridge, a poem by poet Lorine Niedecker. This literary point of departure opens up a wider reflection on the relationship between language, image and the natural world, where poetry and visual expression become intertwined ways of attending to landscape, time and perception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough an interplay of images and printed matter, Feiyi Wen explores landscape as something beyond a fixed or objective representation. Working through processes of repetition, scanning, layering and reprinting, images are transformed, displaced and reassembled, allowing traces of different times and places to coexist. Moving between the visual and the literary, the work considers how landscapes are not only seen and experienced, but also remembered, imagined and articulated through language. The resulting images inhabit an uncertain space between observation and imagination, presence and absence, where the external world and inner experience become increasingly interwoven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on East Asian aesthetics and philosophical understandings of the relationship between humanity and nature, Wen approaches landscape as a site of emotional and contemplative encounter. The book is accompanied by a text by writer and translator Polly Barton, extending its dialogue between visual and literary forms. Together, image and text invite a slower way of looking and reading, attending to the subtle movements, transformations and quiet poetry of the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTorch Press, 2026 \u003cbr\u003eHardcover \u003cbr\u003e260 x 190mm \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65212858532217,"sku":"butterflies are quick","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks_e48c9471-bae6-4a8f-9606-b864646dbe40.jpg?v=1794497973","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.co.uk\/products\/butterflies-are-quicker-than-rock-feiyi-wen","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}