pools

Pools is an evolving photographic series that departs from my layered collage constructions in favor of a quieter, more restrained approach to composition. Rather than assembling many fragments into a single image, each work is formed through a grid of twelve photographs that together function as a subtle, contemplative collage canvas.

The images move between wide views of pools as architectural spaces and intimate details captured at the surface and beneath the water. Reflections, ripples, shifting light, and submerged forms create an ever-changing interplay between abstraction and representation. Light becomes both subject and structure — bending across tiled surfaces, breaking at the waterline, and dissolving form into color and motion below.

By placing these photographs within a repeated grid format, the series invites comparison and slow observation. Each frame holds a distinct moment, while together they reveal rhythm, variation, and quiet transformation. The grid becomes a framework for experiencing time through stillness, where subtle changes in light and surface accumulate into a unified composition.

While informed by traditions of serial photography and minimal composition, the work remains grounded in sensory experience — the calm of water, the shifting reflections, and the meditative quality of looking beneath the surface. As with my other bodies of work, the series encourages viewers to linger, noticing small details that might otherwise pass unseen.