We are hovering in time between uncomfortable realities – a pandemic fading behind us, unfathomable climate changes ahead. After months that extended into years of trepidation, the summer allowed many of us to emerge from our interiors and reestablish connections to the outside world. That world, however, promises a future of undeniable threats to weather, temperature, and water. It’s unsettling to be in the calm both before and after a storm, but it’s also in this interval that we justify existing normally for just a little while longer.

This work is a quiet contemplation of a particular chapter in time and of our ties to the world outside. Through obscured portraits and tight crops, the images emphasize gesture as an expression of their subjects’ renewed but mutable relationship to place. Private moments play out in public places against a recurring backdrop of sea and sunlight. At water’s edge, bodies interweave with fragments of the surrounding environment, suggesting ways in which our connections to the natural world are abundant, entangled, and precarious.