We are adrift between uncomfortable realities. After months that extended into years of trepidation, last summer allowed many of us to emerge from various interiors – but the world we entered promises a future of undeniable threats to weather, temperature, and tides. 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, one largely defined by our ties to the world outside. Private moments play out in public spaces against a recurring backdrop of sea and sunlight. In obscured portraits and tight crops, the images foreground gesture as an expression of their subjects’ renewed but mutable relationship to place. At the water’s edge, bodies interweave with fragments of the surrounding environment, suggesting that our connections to the natural world are at once abundant, entangled, and precarious.