beneath the surface

These images were made during a period of emotional disorientation, when water offered a kind of temporary gravity, a space where light, movement, and breath slowed enough to be felt. Although not landscapes in a traditional sense, the photographs occupy the same territory: places where an unseen energy shapes what is visible.

Shot through water, the flowers become fragments of an internal terrain. Their forms shift between clarity and dissolution, held for a moment before drifting into abstraction. This suspension mirrors the instability of the time in which they were made, a period when the body and mind moved through darkness and luminosity in equal measure.

Rather than depicting emotion directly, the images explore its atmospheric qualities: the turbulence and quietness beneath the surface, the way beauty persists even in the presence of rupture. The water becomes a site of transformation, a medium that alters perception, softens edges, and reveals what usually remains hidden.

Installed on fabric and hung around the pond, the work became a temporary environment. A personal ritual of returning, noticing, and allowing. In this way, the series extends my broader practice of examining how states of uncertainty and renewal manifest in the natural world and within the self.