Was the Water Cool

Water Photograms

2026

This series explores interconnected existence and shared presence, considering how lives remain continuously entangled with one another and with surrounding environments. It reflects on the subtle forces moving between bodies and spaces, where small gestures, energies, and experiences ripple outward, reshaping and being shaped through relation.

Touch operates as a central framework, understood as a condition of proximity and contact in which beings meet without collapsing into one another. The work engages the photogram process, utilizing direct material contact to produce images through a traditionally cameraless method that has been re-appropriated and expanded to include camera created images. The poem is a merging of converstation fragements (overheard when passing through shared environments) into a collective narrative.