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Inspired by the quotes from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931), the waves “swept a thin veil of white water, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously”. Known as the style ‘Stream of Consciousness’, Woolf writes about the notion of a stream of thoughts and feelings that passes through the mind that is highly imaginal. As a response, the Underwater series depicts automatic human emotions, abstract yet highly emotional.

 

Photography as a medium is used to manipulate and enlarge a common object from a macro-micro perspective; underwater, there situates an organism—tremella mushroom in a fish tank, and creates abstract dreamscapes. The subject speaks for the ‘poetic object’—“escaping a single interpretation”, i.e. seeing daily objects from a displaced perspective. The blue-purplish photo montage is build in rhythmic layers, edited with quadruple layers by stacking them ‘automatically’. Derived from Sigmund Freud’s Psychic Automatism—a physiological term which describes bodily movements that are not consciously controlled, such as breathing. The quadruple exposure is created with automated translucent overlays, where the only intentional editing was rubbing out for a better blend. Overlapping the raw photographs have created a fragile texture, reassembling material and water, smoke and pigment.