Sea / Grains is an installation made of fragmented cyanotype prints that come together to
form an image of the sea.
Cyanotype creates blue through a chemical reaction to light.
In this work, the sea is not painted or described. Blue is treated as a material, and the sea
emerges as these blue fragments are gathered and arranged.
The image does not stay still.
During the exhibition, fragments may shift, peel away, or fall. Each piece remains in
continuous transition rather than in a fixed state.
Instability is not shown as an image—it is physically part of the installation.
The work is informed by ideas from physics, which describe matter as always changing.
Objects, bodies, and even the self can be understood as temporary states within that change.
The thought that what is lost—others, or oneself—might one day become part of the sea is
not meant as science, but as a way to live with loss.
In a world where violence and death happen beyond one’s reach, it can feel impossible to
act. In that situation, the repeated act of cutting, placing, and assembling fragments
becomes a bodily gesture.
In Sea / Grains, that gesture becomes a non-religious act of prayer.
The sea is not presented as calm, but as unstable blue matter, always forming and
dissolving—an attempt to stay with loss without trying to solve it.