Moving with water
2026
The ship's scale remains obscure. One is in between – on the water, in the water, floating, sinking – yet still breathing. The sea’s scale remains opaque, entangled between the relations of water, ship, sea, human, ocean, salt. One leans into the unknown: destabilized, unbalanced, unsure. The unknown that does not want to be explained; that does not want to be measured.
It talks through fragments, only revealing bits and pieces, holding things in secret.
It talks through traces that decided to stick to the photographic film. Traces that create a language on their own, carrying geographies and histories. Listen to them carefully, as they are continuously narrating their stories. Take your time and allow yourself to learn and fall trusting into the unknown.
The project is photographed on 4x5-inch black and white film on the cargo ship Plyca en route from Hanko, FI to Antwerp, BE. In March 2026, within five days, the cargo ship passed from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea to enter its port of destination, Antwerp, Belgium. On the journey, water samples have been collected, and empty film sheets soaked for three days in a sealed container and later dried, carrying the water’s imprint. Short notes document the different locations where the water samples have been taken. The notes are descriptive of the location, yet refuse to function as captions to refrain from reproducing extractive and classifying scientific methods.
“Moving with water” is part of my ongoing interest in the sea and learning from it by observing its surface, listening to its sound and feeling its movement.