Date: Finland, 2023-2025. Project Statement: 'You can't enter the same river twice' explores the concept of impermanence, the futility of becoming and the landscape as an agent of transformation. An unknowable rhythm unfolds, forms bend, break, emerge, dissolve, neither whole nor undone. Traces persist within the drift, shifting patterns, unfixed entities, hidden layers of impermanence lie beneath. Nothing holds. Nothing stays. Growth and ruin intertwine, a pulse of becoming and unraveling, between absence and presence, the landscape is in flux. The surface fractures, shifts, unseen forces, all caught in the current, fleeting, surrendering to the flow—panta rhei. These ideas, rooted in the work of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, are conceptually approached through the landscape, using photographic metaphors to express and process the recent passing of a family member. They explore the inevitability of death as an integral part of the process of becoming. Plan: The intended use of the scholarship money is to cover framing costs for a solo exhibition. For this series, I will work with Collotype technique in collaboration with Benrido Atelier in Kyoto, creating limited edition handmade prints. Goals: Solo exhibition, printing a total of at least 12 images, exploring a new paper for printing (handmade snowbleach Kozo), exploring bigger printing sizes, possible future monograph.
