While It Floats, since 2026 Work in progress
This project places a photographic print onto the surface of water and records its interaction with that condition over time. The same image is used repeatedly while the surrounding system changes. The source remains constant; the condition shifts.
Water is approached not simply as an environment, but as an image-producing surface. It generates reflections, distortions, shifting light, and layered depths. The work brings two image systems into contact: the fixed photographic image and the unstable optical behaviour of water.
The camera does not remain fixed; viewpoint, distance, and framing shift with each encounter. The photograph is often only partially visible—submerged, cut by the waterline, or fragmented through reflection. Each image records a situated encounter in which visibility depends on position, surface, and light.
The work extends an ongoing inquiry into photography as a system shaped by conditions. Here, the image is not only observed but immersed, and its visibility is continuously reconfigured.
Water is approached not simply as an environment, but as an image-producing surface. It generates reflections, distortions, shifting light, and layered depths. The work brings two image systems into contact: the fixed photographic image and the unstable optical behaviour of water.
The camera does not remain fixed; viewpoint, distance, and framing shift with each encounter. The photograph is often only partially visible—submerged, cut by the waterline, or fragmented through reflection. Each image records a situated encounter in which visibility depends on position, surface, and light.
The work extends an ongoing inquiry into photography as a system shaped by conditions. Here, the image is not only observed but immersed, and its visibility is continuously reconfigured.