When we stand still on a platform and look in front of us. If the subject(camera) is not moving, the object is not moving, then what is moving? Is the platform moving? Is the movement strong or not? Is the movement triggered by the wind, water, or else? Why there is a movement? When does the movement start? How does the movement happen? ... Second by second, it is our mind that is moving.
In November 2021, I was on an overnight ferry departing from Stockholm to Helsinki. Facing the all-black Baltic Sea with strong winds, feeling the ferry board moving up and down by waves, I put my camera out and experimented with the visual result by capturing movements. During the exploring time, the image captures lights when the ferry passes by islands, lighthouses, or other ferries beside us, on top of that, the ferry boarding platform is moving up and down by waves. So the final results as displayed are the water wave movements overnight. After I backed to London and developed the negative films, the results touched me and I continuing creating more works in this series.
This are taken by 8 by 10 large format analog wood camera, and hand printed directly from negative to gelatin silver paper in the darkroom based in London.
