About 2000 years ago, Samhain was celebrated as the division of the year between the lighter and darker half of the year (summer-winter). Traditionally, October 31st to November 1st, festivities and rituals are the time to welcome in the Harvest and usher in the dark half of the year.

It is said that during that time of the year the veil between the physical and the spiritual world is getting thinner. People then and even these days would light bonfires and wear costumes to wand off ghosts. Halloween was originally celebrated in America as a Harvest festival. Carved turnips became carved pumpkins, which grew in abundance there. Colorful costumes replaced disguises from the past and trick-or-treating evolved from presenting food and drink to the symbol of „wandering spirits“.

My works for Harvest are deeply rooted in Origin and Tradition, Mythology and Spirituality capturing what I personally would depict as the most magical time of the year.