This photograph is one of four in the Collection that featured in Daily Weeding, Kuba Ryniewicz's first photo book published in 2021. These photographs are structured as a series of mini-narratives both within the book that they form part of, but also by themselves. Ryniewicz offers through these images and within the book that they are part of, a poetic celebration of everyday life that is centred on the artist’s immediate surroundings and network of family and friends during the Covid lockdown period in Newcastle. In writing about the book, Dr Carol McKay, of the University of Sunderland calls Ryniewicz ‘a photographic rewilder, embracing ordinary people, places and things, welcoming them into his space and celebrating their beautiful coincidences and differences’. Some individuals, such as Ryniewicz’s husband, Jon, appear regularly in the book (including in the photograph Weeding); others appear intermittently. Alongside the people depicted in his photographs, are poetic and tender moments captured by the artist: a pot of ethereal flowers catching the sun in Petal Dance on the Glass, washing billowing exuberantly on the line in Freedom of the Laundry, and a cow in a field against a backdrop of an industrialised landscape in Cow, Town, Moor. The Polish-born British photographer explores his adopted home with a simple palette that is suffused often with feelings of joy and a recognition of life’s simple pleasures.