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Oct 7, 2026 13 min

The Time Between: Marlene Creates's Trees

from Photography and Walking Hosted by Philippe Guillaume. Produced by Productions 3655 Inc.

Marlene Creates’s Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland consists of 154 photographs made over almost twenty years. Between 2007 and 2015, Creates photographed 77 trees in the boreal forest surrounding her home in Newfoundland, placing her hand against each trunk. Eleven years later, she returned to photograph the same trees again. In The Time Between, Philippe Guillaume considers what happened across that interval: black-and-white film became colour digital photography; trees grew, fell or disappeared; and the hand touching them aged. Moving between Creates’s work, debates around photographic technology, and Guillaume’s own visit to her Boreal Poetry Garden, the episode asks what happens when we stop defending the boundaries of photography and look instead at what is in front of us. Two photographs give us two moments. But what happens in the time between? Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland, de l’artiste visuelle canadienne Marlene Creates, réunit 154 photographies réalisées sur près de vingt ans. Entre 2007 et 2015, Creates a photographié 77 arbres dans la forêt boréale entourant sa maison à Terre-Neuve, posant sa main contre chaque tronc. Onze ans plus tard, elle est retournée photographier les mêmes arbres. Dans The Time Between, Philippe Guillaume s’intéresse à ce qui s’est produit pendant cet intervalle : la photographie argentique noir et blanc est devenue photographie numérique couleur; des arbres ont grandi, sont tombés ou ont disparu; et la main qui les touche a vieilli. À partir du travail de Creates, des débats entourant les technologies photographiques et de sa propre visite au Boreal Poetry Garden de l’artiste, Guillaume se demande ce qui arrive lorsque nous cessons de défendre les frontières de la photographie pour regarder plutôt ce qui se trouve devant nous. Deux photographies nous donnent deux moments. Mais que se passe-t-il dans le temps qui les sépare ? Images and references / Images et références: https://photographyandwalking.com/episode-26-the-time-between/ — Music: “Beat ’em with Rhythm” by Victor Natas, edited for this podcast (CC BY 4.0, Freesound.org). In-episode music excerpts: “Electronic Loop 1000” by Seth_Makes_Sounds, via Freesound (CC0 1.0). Produced by Productions 3655 Inc.

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Marlene Creates’s Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland consists of 154 photographs made over almost twenty years. Between 2007 and 2015, Creates photographed 77 trees in the boreal forest surrounding her home in Newfoundland, placing her hand against each trunk. Eleven years later, she returned to photograph the same trees again. In The Time Between, Philippe Guillaume considers what happened across that interval: black-and-white film became colour digital phot...

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