Thinking of the human self as a body of water shaped my working process during a studio residency at SÍM in Reykjavík, where water permeates both the landscape and everyday perception. Informed by Astrida Neimanis’s concept of “bodies of water”, the work unfolds as a research-based exploration of how human and more-than-human watery bodies are entangled through material processes and perception.

I worked with sea glass fragments reshaped by the ocean. Photographed in their wet state and against backlight, the fragments appear translucent, as if light could pass through them. Enlarged at a ratio of 22:1 and cut along their contours, the images hover between object and image, surface and volume.

In the exhibition display at Aargauer Kunsthaus, this ambiguity becomes spatial: what initially reads as a three-dimensional constellation reveals itself as a flat, staged construction, shifting attention to the conditions under which depth, scale and landscape are produced. The work was awarded the CS-Förderpreis in the exhibition «Auswahl 22».