nightswimming is a meditation on connection and transience through the vulnerability of the subject. In the night, with the sea, through time; the images are intimate glimpses through glitch and grain of fleeting intimacy and the unspoken awareness of the human experience.

nightswimming began as a personal reckoning—a revisitation of a specific memory during what I call my own year of magical thinking. At its heart, it was an attempt to hold on to a fleeting moment of intuition, clarity, and emotional suspension: jumping into dark waters at 4 a.m., unsure of everything except the need to leap. What began as a photographic meditation on transformation, rewilding, and trust evolved into a multisensory installation that seeks to recreate that same threshold of space for others.

Traditional gallery walls felt too static, too clinical for the vulnerability and movement inherent in the work. Instead, I wanted the viewer to feel submerged in the moment—to be inside the image. The illuminated lightboxes offered a way for the photographs to exist as self-contained objects with their own energy, glowing and shifting like auras in conversation with sound, video, and space. By integrating audio recordings, ambient seascapes, and simultaneous video sequences, nightswimming extends beyond stillness into a living system of echoes and sensations. It’s a work about impermanence and love—solitary and communal, meditative and disruptive—a quiet call toward catharsis, however fleeting. Each iteration reflects not a perfect picture, but a state of becoming, revealing that the real work, for me, lies in embracing the fluid relationships between image, body, space, and emotion.