The Ship and the Sea
2019
clothing line on photographic print
The ship, as both vessel and refuge, becomes a powerful metaphor for shelter adrift — a fragile home suspended in the vastness of the sea. It holds within it the paradox of containment and exposure: a defined, finite space moving through an endless, unknowable expanse.
In this work, I reflect on the intimate and uneasy dialogue between the finite and the infinite, between the safety of home and the openness of the world, between the interior space of the self and the outward pull of the horizon. The ship embodies this tension — it is at once a constructed haven and a conduit toward the unknown. It separates, yet connects. It shelters, yet insists on motion.
To dwell on a ship is to live in a constant state of in-between — not fully anchored, not entirely lost. It is to exist on the edge, at the threshold where the familiar brushes against the boundless, where certainty dissolves into possibility. The sea becomes more than a backdrop; it is a force, a mirror, a realm of projection and desire. And the horizon, forever receding, draws the gaze outward — a symbol of longing, of the unreachable, of what lies just beyond.
This work is an exploration of that liminal condition — the drift between rootedness and restlessness, containment and expansion. It is a meditation on what it means to carry one’s home within motion, and to seek meaning not only in arrival, but in the passage itself.
In this work, I reflect on the intimate and uneasy dialogue between the finite and the infinite, between the safety of home and the openness of the world, between the interior space of the self and the outward pull of the horizon. The ship embodies this tension — it is at once a constructed haven and a conduit toward the unknown. It separates, yet connects. It shelters, yet insists on motion.
To dwell on a ship is to live in a constant state of in-between — not fully anchored, not entirely lost. It is to exist on the edge, at the threshold where the familiar brushes against the boundless, where certainty dissolves into possibility. The sea becomes more than a backdrop; it is a force, a mirror, a realm of projection and desire. And the horizon, forever receding, draws the gaze outward — a symbol of longing, of the unreachable, of what lies just beyond.
This work is an exploration of that liminal condition — the drift between rootedness and restlessness, containment and expansion. It is a meditation on what it means to carry one’s home within motion, and to seek meaning not only in arrival, but in the passage itself.