FRAGMENTS

I chose abstract photography because some part of me has always struggled to say things directly. There is something I notice in every image I make. It is a particular way of looking, a tendency to find meaning in what is suspended between states, neither resolved nor finished. That is not a technique.

Intrinsically Disordered petals No.11

When I freeze a flower, I am not documenting it. I am asking it to hold something I cannot quite name. The petal suspended in ice becomes a kind of language, one that works precisely because it is not literal. It doesn't explain. It suggests. And in that gap between what is shown and what is felt, something true can exist.

This is why I am drawn to the idea of intrinsically disordered proteins. Structures that function without ever settling into a fixed form. I recognise something of myself in that. Not chaos, but a refusal to be pinned down to a single meaning, a single reading, a single self.

Baroque No.3

Each image is a fragment. A trace. I arrange the flowers and decide what goes into the ice. That part is mine. But what happens next is not. The freezing takes over, and the forms that emerge, those I never planned and could never predict. Somewhere between my intention and the ice, something appears that I couldn't have made alone.

I don't expect viewers to see what I see. I only hope they find something of their own inside it. That is, perhaps, the most honest thing art can do. Not to speak for everyone, but to create a space where each person can hear something they didn't know they were listening for.