According to the Sky
“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”
-Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
This project is a meditation on the connection between humanity and the sea, drawing inspiration from personal narratives intertwined with mythology, astronomy, and mysticism. The ocean serves as both backdrop and central character, acting as a bridge to the cosmos. We live on a planet whose surface is largely covered in water and within bodies that are themselves mostly water, linking us physically and psychologically to the sea. The photographs are made in the water and along the shore where land and sea meet. This shifting threshold between the known and unknown becomes a metaphor for change.