I am deeply familiar with how my body interacts with water, and how it limits my mobility and ability to breathe in a way that could never be achieved in any other environment. As a lifelong competitive swimmer, this understanding of water is essential, and has become integral to my work as an artist. I capture this immersive, isolating, and erratic phenomenon with photography. The interaction of the body in water is documented from above the surface, while the model is obscured below or by the foamy, branching water created by their own movements at the surface.
The image is further distorted by editing and digital collage. The image is stripped of its color to become black and white, erasing the blue tint typically associated with the element. The removal of color emphasizes the contrast in the subject, from the blacks deep below to the moving white water on the surface. Finally, the image is further distorted to emphasize the movement of water through digital collage. I employ Photoshop to alter the images of the models to distort and abstract this interaction with geometric shapes, a phenomenon which does not naturally appear in the fluidity of water.