This project-in-progress begins with light: digital drawings projected onto beaches, where they flicker briefly before vanishing into sand and tide. The works illuminate what is often unseen or under-understood beneath the surfaces of the waters where we gather for leisure, from delicate, overlooked ecologies to harmful invasive species.
Created during residencies at The Island School in Eleuthera and the Creative Climate Action Residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point, these images explore light as both a tool and a metaphor: fleeting, sustainable, and transformative. Working with digital tools allows me to shift between drawing, projection, and photographic trace, expanding how ephemeral gestures can be recorded, circulated, and reimagined. The projections existed only for a moment, dissolving back into sand and tide, leaving their traces in documentation.
By making visible what is normally hidden, the work invites reflection on our entanglement with marine and freshwater ecosystems, and on how we might see, know, and care for them differently.
(2025)
