Dapples No. 8

Dapples No. 8 explores the fleeting patterns created when sunlight, water and the natural world intersect. Rather than documenting the landscape directly, these works photograph its reflection, where light fractures across the water's surface, dissolving familiar forms into shifting fields of colour and abstraction.

Captured along the waterways of the south east coast of Australia, the image transforms seaweed, oysters shells, sand and sky into fluid compositions that hover between representation and painting. The camera records moments that exist for only an instant, where movement, light and reflection combine to produce images that cannot be repeated.

This work invites a slower way of seeing. What initially appears abstract gradually resolves into traces of the natural world, reminding us that perception is never fixed but constantly shaped by light, time and movement. In an age of environmental uncertainty, Dapples No. 8 celebrates the quiet beauty of everyday ecosystems while encouraging a renewed attentiveness to the fragile relationships between water, light and landscape. It occupies the space between photography and abstraction, asking viewers not simply to look at nature, but to experience its rhythms through the ever-changing language of reflected light.